School of Sir Joshua Reynolds (British, 1723-1792) Portrait of a Gentleman, Described as "Mr. Wilkinson" Unsigned. Oil on canvas, 30 x 25 in. (76.0 x 63.0 cm), framed. Condition: Lined, retouch, craquelure. Provenance: Ex-collection of Sir Douglas Archibald Seton-Steuart, 5th Baronet (1857–1930), New Stirling, Scotland; through to Spin & Son, Ltd., London; to Chester Noyes Greenough, Belmont, Massachusetts; through to the current owner. N.B. The lot is accompanied by a letter from Spink & Son, Ltd., London, from 1937, to the American buyer, C.N. Greenough, Esq., of Belmont, Massachusetts, which provides the name of the sitter and some provenance. The letter suggests that the portrait is "quite possibly by Reynolds." The American buyer, Chester Noyes Greenough (1874-1938), was a Professor of English and Dean at Harvard University. Also accompanying the lot is a printed photograph of the library at Greenough's home in Belmont showing the portrait hanging above the fireplace. The sitter here is different from the portrait of Mr. Wilkinson (cat. no. 1881, done in 1771) included in the Reynolds catalogue raisonné by David Mannings. The work is closer in feeling to portraits done a decade later.
School of Sir Joshua Reynolds (British, 1723-1792) Portrait of a Gentleman, Described as "Mr. Wilkinson" Unsigned. Oil on canvas, 30 x 25 in. (76.0 x 63.0 cm), framed. Condition: Lined, retouch, craquelure. Provenance: Ex-collection of Sir Douglas Archibald Seton-Steuart, 5th Baronet (1857–1930), New Stirling, Scotland; through to Spin & Son, Ltd., London; to Chester Noyes Greenough, Belmont, Massachusetts; through to the current owner. N.B. The lot is accompanied by a letter from Spink & Son, Ltd., London, from 1937, to the American buyer, C.N. Greenough, Esq., of Belmont, Massachusetts, which provides the name of the sitter and some provenance. The letter suggests that the portrait is "quite possibly by Reynolds." The American buyer, Chester Noyes Greenough (1874-1938), was a Professor of English and Dean at Harvard University. Also accompanying the lot is a printed photograph of the library at Greenough's home in Belmont showing the portrait hanging above the fireplace. The sitter here is different from the portrait of Mr. Wilkinson (cat. no. 1881, done in 1771) included in the Reynolds catalogue raisonné by David Mannings. The work is closer in feeling to portraits done a decade later.
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