£500 - £1,000
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, PRA, PLYMPTON, DEVON, 1723 - 1792, LONDON, RARE 18TH CENTURY PRELIMINARY SKETCH AND GRAPHITE DRAWING
Portrait of Mary Ward, Viscountess, bearing partial watermark top half of Britannia Pro Patria, page numbered top corners 23-24, framed and glazed.
(sheet 16cm x 19.7cm, frame 21.5cm x 26.5cm)
Provenance: probably the sale at Christie’s, 26th May 1821, property of Sir Joshua's niece Mary Dowager, Marchioness of Thomond, his principal Heiress, where over 450 drawings and nine sketch books were sold in a total of fifteen lots, most of the drawings and sketches by Reynolds extant derive from the sale: The Collection of Alison Barker, 1951 - 2021, London and Chichester, London Barrister and lifetime collector
Facsimile label verso Robert Thatcher Stationer, Charles Duke of Buccleuch, sketch book 1757
Reynolds painting was probably painted in 1763
David Manning, Sir Joshua Reynolds, A Complete Catalogue of his Work Yale 2000, text P. 462, under no.1832. Fig.749
Pose studies such as this are rare survivals
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