LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on canvas
Size Notes:
109.2 x 125.7 cm.
Description:
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Exhibited:
London, The Society of Artists, 1765, no. 168.
Literature:
A. Graves, ed., The Society of Artists of Great Britain, 17601791 and the Free Society of Artists, 17611783: a Complete Dictionary of Contributors and their Work from the Foundation of the Societies to 1791, London, 1907, p. 291, no. 168. , Lady Victoria Manners and Dr. G.C. Williamson, John Zoffany, RA his life and works : 1735-1810, London and New York, 1920, p. 223., Dr. G.C. Williamson, English Conversation Pictures of the Eighteenth and Early 19th Centuries, New York, 1975, p. 16, pl. XLIV., K. Baetjer and ?M. Shelley, Pastel Portraits: Images of 18th-century Europe, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2011, p. 47, under no. 35., M. Webster, Johann Zoffany 1733-1810, New Haven and London, 2011, pp. 140-141, 144-146 and 619, fig. 133 and facing page to Chapter 7.
Provenance:
Commissioned from the artist by Robert Nugent, Lord Clare, later 1st Earl Nugent (1709-1788), and by descent in the family to, , Sir George Guy Bulwer Nugent, 4th Bt. (1892-1970), West Harling Hall, Norfolk, by whom sold circa 1935., with Edward Speelman, London, by 1967, from whom acquired by the family of the present owners.