Lot 138
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SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS P.R.A. (PLYMPTON, DEVON 1723-1792 LONDON)
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS P.R.A. (PLYMPTON, DEVON 1723-1792 LONDON)
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS P.R.A. (PLYMPTON, DEVON 1723-1792 LONDON)
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SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS P.R.A. (PLYMPTON, DEVON 1723-1792 LONDON)

Portrait of Aubrey Beauclerk, 5th Duke of St. Albans (1740-1802), half-length, wearing a green coat and holding a flintlock

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SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS P.R.A. (PLYMPTON, DEVON 1723-1792 LONDON)
Portrait of Aubrey Beauclerk, 5th Duke of St. Albans (1740-1802), half-length, wearing a green coat and holding a flintlock
oil on canvas
30 ¼ x 25 ¼ in. (76.8 x 64.1 cm.)
Provenance
By descent in the family of the sitter until,
Charles Frederick Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk, 13th Duke of St. Albans (1915-1988); [The Property of the Duke of St. Albans], Christie's, London, 23 June 1978, lot 123.
[A Mansion Overlooking a Royal Park]; Sotheby's, London, 28 April 2015, lot 86, where acquired after the sale by the present owner.
Literature
A. Graves and W.V. Cronin, The Life and Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, III, London, 1899, p.1006.
E.K. Waterhouse, Reynolds, London 1941, p. 70.
D. Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds, A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, New Haven and London, 2000, I, p. 80, no. 139, II, p. 486, fig. 1252.
Exhibited
Nottingham, Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Art & Antiques in Nottinghamshire, 6 May-20 June 1937, no. 531.

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Lot Essay

The present portrait was likely painted in 1778, with a payment made by Lord Vere on 22 November 1781 for 35 guineas. Aubrey Beauclerk succeeded his father as the 2nd Lord Vere Beauclerk on 2 October 1781 and later became the 5th Duke of St. Albans on 16 February 1787, following the death of his cousin, George Beauclerk (1758-1787), 4th Duke of St. Albans, who died unmarried.

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