Old Masters, British & European Paintings - Day 2 - 12th August 2021
Lot 618
Attributed to Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA
Estimate £3,000 - £5,000 | Hammer £4800
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Description
Attributed to Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA, FRS, FRSA (1723-1792)
Portrait of Mary Palmer, later Marchioness Thomond, the artist's niece, half-length, wearing a black dress and black feathered hat
Oil on canvas
76.4 x 63.5cm; 30 x 25in
Together with Joseph Collyer (1748-1827) after Sir Joshua Reynolds; Miss Palmer; aquatint; 9.9 x 7.6cm; 3¾ x 3in (2)
Provenance:
Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, 13 March 2013, lot 234, where purchased by the present private collector
Engraved:
Joseph Collyer, aquatint, 1785
David Mannings' catalogue raisonné (New Haven and London, 2000) lists two autograph versions of this portrait, both untraced.