Details
Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. (Plympton Devon 1723-1792 London)
Portrait of Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Shannon (1727-1807), three-quarter-length, in a green waistcoat with gold trim and a grey coat, a tricorn under his left arm, in a landscape
oil on canvas
48 x 40 in. (122 x 101.6 cm.)
Provenance
(Presumably) by descent to Henry, 5th Earl of Shannon; Christie's, London, 29 June 1889, lot 44 (215 gns. to the following).
with Thomas Agnew and Sons, London, from whom acquired on 31 December 1892 by the following.
C. Morland Agnew; sold by his executors on 1 May 1934 to the following. with Thomas Agnew and Sons, London.
with Leggatt Brothers, London.
Lady Hague; Sotheby's, London, 14 June 1961, lot 98 (£1,300 to the following).
with Frost & Reed, London.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 29 November 1963, lot 101 (1,600 gns. to Boyle).
Anonymous sale [The Property of a Gentleman]; Christie's, London, 17 November 1989, lot 163 (£41,800).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 8 April 1992, lot 39 (£41,800).
Literature
A. Graves and W.V. Cronin, A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, III, London, 1899, p. 879.
E.K. Waterhouse, Reynolds, London, 1941, p. 46.
D. Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds, New Haven and London, 2000, I, p. 102, no. 233; II, p. 245, fig. 410.
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, Winter exhibition, 1886, no. 39.
Paris, British Pavilion, Exposition Universelle, 1900, no. 77.
Birmingham, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Loan Collection of Portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, George Romney, John Hoppner, Sir Henry Raeburn and other artists, 1903, no. 7.
London, Heim Gallery, Three Eyes, June-August 1990, no. 35.
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