£500 - £1,000
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, PRA, PLYMPTON, DEVON, 1723 - 1792, LONDON, RARE 18TH CENTURY PRELIMINARY SKETCH, GRAPHITE AND WASH DRAWING
Portrait of Lady Mary O’Brien, handwritten colours pink, purple and blue, bearing partial watermark top half of Britannia Pro Patria, page numbered top corners 33-34, framed and glazed.
(sheet 15.8cm 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 1772
David Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds, A Complete Catalogue of his Work Yale 2000, text P. 354, under no.1352. Fig.1056
Pose studies such as this are rare survivals
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