LOT DETAILS

Materials:

a pair, both oil on canvas

Size Notes:

each

Condition:

held in their original eighteenth century carved and gilded Carlo Maratta frames, with early nineteenth century aggrandisements

Literature:

Mrs C. Parsons, Garrick and his Circle, London 1906, p.148;; Lady V. Manners and Dr. G. C. Williamson, John Zoffany RA, 1920, pp. 194 & 195;; G. C. Williamson, English Conversation Pictures of the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century, London 1931, p. 20, pl. LVII & LVIII;; S. Sitwell, Conversation Pieces, A Survey of English Domestic Portrait and their Painters, London 1936, pp. 34-36, pl. 38 & 39;; C. Oman, David Garrick, Bungay 1958, pp. xiii, 187-8, & illus. opposite pp. 260 & 310;; D. M. Little and G. M. Kahrl (eds.), The Letters of David Garrick, Cambridge, Mass. 1963, Vol. I, p. 363, and Vol. III, illus. opposite p. 1105;; M. Praz, Conversation Pieces; A Survey of the Informal Group Portrait in Europe & America, London 1971, p. 121, figs, 274 & 275;; A Kendall, David Garrick, London 1985, p.87;; E. D. H. Johnson, Paintings of the British Social Scene, London 1986, p. 62, fig. 32;; J. Brewer, The Pleasures of the Imagination, London 1997, chpt., 4;; R Strong, The Artist & The Garden, New Haven and London, 2000, pp. 265-266, fig. 329;; K. Retford, The Art of Domestic Life, Family Portraiture in Eighteenth Century England, New Haven & London 2006, p. 76, pl. 54;; P. Treadwell, Johan Zoffany, London 2009, pp. 66-67, 68-70, 79 & 154-155;; M. Webster, Johan Zoffany, New Haven and London 2011, pp. 76-84, illus. pls. 81 and 82

Provenance:

Commissioned by David Garrick (1717-1779) in 1762; his widow's sale, London, Christie's, 23rd June 1823, lots 53 & 54 (bt. Seguier on behalf of a private collector); by descent