LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

41.875 x 40.125 in. (106.5 x 101.9 cm.)

Description:

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Exhibited:

London, Royal Academy, 1770, no. 212. London, British Institution, 1814, no. 80. London, British Institution, 1840, no. 81. London, New Gallery, Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph, 1891, no. 316. London, Grafton Gallery, Exhibition of dramatic and musical art, 1897, no. 97. London, Whitechapel Gallery, Shakespeare and Theatrical Memorial, 12 October-20 November 1910, no. 32. London, 45 Park Lane, English Conversation Pieces, March 1930, no. 1. Birmingham, Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery; and Port Sunlight, Lady Lever Art Gallery, Art and the Theatre, 2 July-4 September 1949, no. 200. London, Morley Gallery, Pictures from Castle Howard, 1970, no. 36. London, National Portrait Gallery, Johan Zoffany 1733-1810, 14 January-27 March 1977, no. 59. York, York City Art Gallery, Masterpieces from Yorkshire Houses, 20 January-29 March 1994, no. 29.

Literature:

J. Northcote, The Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds, London, 1818, II, p.178. The Literary Gazette, 8th July 1826. J.T. Smith, Nollekens and his Times, London, 1828, I, pp. 65-66. C.R. Leslie and T. Taylor, Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds, London, 1865, I, p. 359. Lady Victoria Manners and G.C. Williamson, John Zoffany, R.A., London, 1920, pp. 26-27 and 186. W.T. Whitley, Artists and their Friends in England 1700-1799, London, 1928, I, pp. 262-263. G.C. Williamson, English Conversation Pieces of the 18th and Early 19th Centuries, London, 1931, p. 22, pl. LXIV. M. Webster, 'The Eighteenth Century', The Genius of British Painting, D. Piper, ed., London, 1975, p. 191, illustrated. N. Penny, ed., Reynolds, exhibition catalogue, London, 1986, p. 341. M. Postle, ed., Johann Zoffany RA: Society Observed, exhibition catalogue, New Haven and London, 2011, pp. 54-55, fig. 48. M. Webster, Johann Zoffany 1733-1810, New Haven and London, 2011, pp. 206-210, figs. 169 and 170.

Provenance:

Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. (1723-1792), offered the artist 100 gns. for the picture at the 1770 Royal Academy exhibition, but resigned his intended purchase to the following, Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle (1748-1825), Castle Howard, and by decsent to the following, Major George Howard, Baron Howard of Henderskelfe (1920-1984), Castle Howard, and by descent; Sotheby's, London, 29 November 2001, lot 11 (861,500), when acquired.