Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. (Plympton, Devon 1723-1792 London)

Portrait of Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore (1700-1785), half-length, in a blue coat. with the badge and sash of the Order of the Thistle, a tricorn under his left arm

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Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. (Plympton, Devon 1723-1792 London)
Portrait of Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore (1700-1785), half-length, in a blue coat. with the badge and sash of the Order of the Thistle, a tricorn under his left arm
oil on canvas
30 x 25 1/8 in. (76.2 x 63.8 cm.)

来源

The Rev. E.H. Dawkins, Morhanger House, Bedfordshire; (+) Christie's, London, 28 February, 1913, lot 41 (700 gns. to A. West[?]).
Asher Wertheimer; (+) Christie's, London, 18 June 1920, lot 47 (300 gns. Permain).
with Leggatt Brothers, London, 1920.
C.J. Conway (d. 1951), Turville Court, and by inheritance to the present owner.

出版

E.K. Waterhouse, Reynolds, London, 1941, p. 44.
A. Graves and W.G. Cronin, A History of the works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, II, London, 1899-1901, p. 761.
D. Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, New Haven and London, 2000, p. 140, no. 397, fig. 335.

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The sitter was the second but only surviving son of David, 1st Earl of Portmore, and his wife Katherine, daughter of Sir Charles Sedley, Bt., and mistress of King James II. Portmore was a Member of Parliament for Wycombe (1726) and Andover (1727-30), and a founding Governor of the Foundling Hospital. He was Knighted in June 1732 and married in the same year Julia, daughter of Roger Hele of Halwell, Devon, and widow of the 3rd Duke of Leeds. Portmore was famous in high society for the splendour of his dress and equipages; Wraxall noted that 'when nearly 80 he retained his activity of body, with many personal graces, and the most polished manners' (cited in G.E. Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, X, p. 605). This portrait was executed in 1758. A portrait of his second but only surviving son, Charles, 3rd Earl of Portmore (1747-1823), painted by Reynolds in the following year, was sold in these Rooms on 18 June 2008, lot 195, for £265,250.
For a portrait of the sitter as a child, with his elder brother, David Colyear, Viscount Milsington, see lot 46.