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227 - SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, R.A. (BRITISH 1723-1792)SKETCH FOR A FAMILY PORTRAIT WEARING VAN DYCK COSTUMEPencil and inkBearing partial watermark ‘GR’, page numbered top corners 95-9612.5 x 17cm (4¾ x 6½in.)Provenance:Probably the sale at Christie’s 26 May 1821, as the property of Sir Joshua’s niece Mary Dowager, Marchioness of Thormond, his principle Heiress, where over 450 drawings and nine sketchbooks were sold in a total of 15 lots (and most of the drawing and sketches by Reynolds extant derive from this sale)The collection of Alison Barker, 1951-2021, a barrister and lifetime collector, London and ChichesterWith facsimile label verso for Robert Thatcher Stationer, Charles Duke of Buccleuch, Sketch book 1757The pages from the 1757 sketchbook match the size and watermarks of the Reynolds sketchbook in Harvard Museum. Pose studies such as the one offered here are rare.
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SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, R.A. (BRITISH 1723-1792)SKETCH FOR A FAMILY PORTRAIT WEARING VAN DYCK COSTUMEPencil and inkBearing partial watermark ‘GR’, page numbered top corners 95-9612.5 x 17cm (4¾ x 6½in.)Provenance:Probably the sale at Christie’s 26 May 1821, as the property of Sir Joshua’s niece Mary Dowager, Marchioness of Thormond, his principle Heiress, where over 450 drawings and nine sketchbooks were sold in a total of 15 lots (and most of the drawing and sketches by Reynolds extant derive from this sale)The collection of Alison Barker, 1951-2021, a barrister and lifetime collector, London and ChichesterWith facsimile label verso for Robert Thatcher Stationer, Charles Duke of Buccleuch, Sketch book 1757The pages from the 1757 sketchbook match the size and watermarks of the Reynolds sketchbook in Harvard Museum. Pose studies such as the one offered here are rare.
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