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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 30, 2018 | Christie's | New York | Old Masters | 66 | $****** - ****** | Portrait of Theophila Palmer (1757-1848), half-length, in a cream dress and reading a copy of Clarissa Harlowe |
paintings
77.2 x 64.2 cm (30.39 x 25.28 in)
oil on canvas
By inheritance from the sitter to Messrs Palmer, 4 Trafalgar Square, London; Christie's, London, 3 June 1871, lot 60, where acquired for 750 gns. by the following
with Agnew’s, London, where acquired on 5 June 1871 by
John Heugh, Esq., Holmewood, Kent, and Upper Brook Street, London.
Charles Henry Mills, 2nd Bt. (1830-1898), later Baron Hillingdon, from 1878, and by descent to the present owners.
London, Royal Academy, 1771, no. 158, as 'A girl reading.'
Truro, The Council Hall, Exhibition of Pictures by Ancient and Modern Artists, June 1861, no. 104.
London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of the Works of the Old Masters, 1872, no. 60.
London, Sir Philip Sassoon, 3rd Bt., 45 Park Lane, Sir Joshua Reynolds: Loan Exhibition: In aid of the Royal Northern hospital, 9 February-23 March 1937, no. 67.
London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition: The First Hundred Years of the Royal Academy: 1769-1868, 8 December 1951-9 March 1952, no. 79.
Montreal, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada; Toronto, Art Gallery of Toronto; Toledo, OH, Toledo Museum of Art, British Painting in the Eighteenth Century, 3 October 1957-30 November 1958, no. 57.
Plymouth, City Art Gallery, Sir Joshua Reynolds P.R.A.: 250th Anniversary Exhibition, 16 July-27 August 1973, no. 43.
W. Cotton, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and his works. Gleanings from his diary, unpublished manuscripts, and from other sources., London, 1856, pp. 115, 276, incorrectly listing the exhibition number of the Royal Academy exhibition in 1771 as '258'.
Catalogue of the Furniture, Porcelain, Pictures & c. at Camelford House, Park Lane, The Town Residence of Lord Hillingdon, compiled 1891, privately printed, p. 40, illustrated, incorrectly described as reading Samuel Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison (in the Red Drawing Room).
A. Graves and W.V. Cronin, A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A.,1899, II, p. 724.
H. Furst, 'Sir Joshua Reynolds Loan Exhibition,' Apollo, XXV, No. 147, March 1937, p. 119-120, illustrated.
E.K. Waterhouse, Reynolds, London, 1949, pp. 16, 61, pl. 137.
D. Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds: A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, New Haven and London, 2000, I, pp. 362-363, no. 1389; II, p. 422, fig. 1035.
Portrait of Theophila Palmer (1757-1848), half-length, in a cream dress and reading a copy of Clarissa Harlowe
oil on canvas
30 3/8 x 25 ¼ in. (77.2 x 64.2 cm.)
