Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. (1723-1792)

Portrait of Mrs Hugo Meynell, half-length, in a gold dress with a blue cloak and ribbon

细节

Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. (1723-1792)
Portrait of Mrs Hugo Meynell, half-length, in a gold dress with a blue cloak and ribbon
oil on canvas
29¾ x 24¾ in. (75.5 x 62.9 cm.)

来源

by descent from the sitter.

出版

A. Graves and W.V. Cronin, A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A., London, 1899, II, p. 643.

拍品专文

The sitter was the the daughter of Thomas Boothby Serimshire, of Tooley Park, Leicestershire. She married Hugo Meynell, for whom see the previous lot, as his second wife.

'Mrs Meynell', presumably the sitter, is recorded as having sat to the artist in June 1759, a year after her husband.