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

Portrait of Bridget Morris, later Mrs. Lockwood, half-length, in a white silk dress and blue robe with ermine trim

Details

Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. (Plympton 1723-1792 London)
Portrait of Bridget Morris, later Mrs. Lockwood, half-length, in a white silk dress and blue robe with ermine trim
oil on canvas
30 1/8 x 25 in. (76.6 x 63.5 cm.)

Provenance

Colonel Morris.
Lord Hastings.
with Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris.
with Knoedler, New York.
M.C.D. Borden, Esq.; American Art Association, New York, 13-14 February 1913, lot 22 ($36,000 to Scott & Fowles).
with Scott & Fowles, New York.

Literature

C.R. Leslie, Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds, London, 1865, I, p. 156.
A. Graves, F.S.A. and W. Cronin, A history of the works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A., London, 1899-1901, II, p. 670.
W. Armstrong, Sir Joshua Reynolds, first president of the Royal Academy, London, 1900, p. 221.
E.K. Waterhouse, Reynolds, London, 1941, p. 44.
D. Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, New Haven and London, 2000, p. 344, no. 1299, fig. 277.

Exhibited

New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Old Masters Exhibition, 11-12 January 1912, no. 26.

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Lot Essay

The sitter has traditionally been identified as one of the daughters of Robert Morris of Tredegar, Glamorgan. There are a number of appointments with a 'Miss Morris' in Reynolds's Pocket Book in April 1757 which may feasibly be linked with the present portrait.

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