Portrait of Admiral Augustus Keppel, half-length, in uniform

Details

After Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A.
Portrait of Admiral Augustus Keppel, half-length, in uniform
oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm.)

Provenance

Major A.M. Storer; Sotheby's, London, 24 March, 1920, lot 48.
Jones sale; Parke Bernet, New York, 4-5 December, 1941, lot 86, as by J.S. Copley.

Literature

D. Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds, A complete catalogue of his paintings, New Haven and London, 2000, p. 290, no. 1046a.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Mannings (op.cit) records Waterhouse describing the present picture as 'a cut down version [of the three-quarter-length portrait by Reynolds belonging to The Trustees of the Berkeley Castle Will Trust, see Mannings no. 1046]'. We are grateful to Professor Jules Prown for suggesting, on the basis of a photograph, that the traditional attribution to Copley is plausible.

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