David Garrick [graphic] / studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds.
1776
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Title
David Garrick [graphic] / studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Created/published
ca. 1776-79.
Description
1 painting : oil on canvas ; 29 1/2 x 24 1/4 in. (75 x 62 cm)
Associated name
Mills, Thomas, Sir, former owner.
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, artist.
Lansdowne House, London, former owner.
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, artist.
Lansdowne House, London, former owner.
Material base
canvas
Note
Inscribed at the top of the paper facing Garrick: "Prologue."
Related works: A replica that was presented to the third duke of Dorset in 1780 is at Knole. In addition to the two works at the Folger are ones in the National Portrait Gallery, London; The Garrick Club; the Hereford City Museum; and the collection of the late Lord Olivier (see Highfill 1973-, vol. 6, pp. 85-86 [no. 42])
Original painting: Painted for the Thrales and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1776; sold at Christie, Manson & Woods, Auctioneers, 8 King St., St. James's Square, London, 24 November 1972, lot 140, bought by Lawson.
Engravings after original: Mezzotint by Thomas Watson, 14 3/4 x 11 in., published by Watson and Dickinson, 1779. This was the first of many. A list is given in Highfill 1973-, vol. 6, p. 86. Graves and Cronin incorrectly list the prints as being after the Lansdowne version.
Title from Pressly.
Related works: A replica that was presented to the third duke of Dorset in 1780 is at Knole. In addition to the two works at the Folger are ones in the National Portrait Gallery, London; The Garrick Club; the Hereford City Museum; and the collection of the late Lord Olivier (see Highfill 1973-, vol. 6, pp. 85-86 [no. 42])
Original painting: Painted for the Thrales and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1776; sold at Christie, Manson & Woods, Auctioneers, 8 King St., St. James's Square, London, 24 November 1972, lot 140, bought by Lawson.
Engravings after original: Mezzotint by Thomas Watson, 14 3/4 x 11 in., published by Watson and Dickinson, 1779. This was the first of many. A list is given in Highfill 1973-, vol. 6, p. 86. Graves and Cronin incorrectly list the prints as being after the Lansdowne version.
Title from Pressly.
Provenance
Provenance: Belonged in 1779 to Sir Thomas Mills (according to Graves and Cronin); the marquess of Lansdowne, Lansdowne House, Berkeley Square, London.
Source of acquisition
Lansdowne sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, Auctioneers, 8 King St., St. James's Square, London, 7 March 1930, lot 65, 950 guineas plut 10 percent commission (£1097.5.0), as by Reynolds, Wells acting as agent.
Exhibited
Exhibited: (always exhibited as by Reynolds): London, British Institution, "Catalogue of Pictures by Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, French and English Masters," 1861, no. 148; London, South Kensington Museum, "Catalogue of the Second Special Exhibition of National Portraits Commencing with the Reign of William and Mary and Ending with the Year MDCCC," 1869, no. 607; Birmingham, Museum and Art Gallery, "Loan Collection of Portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough ... and Other Artists," 1900, no. 17; Mead Art Building, Amherst College, "Shakespeare, Hamlet, and Macbeth" (no catalogue), 1951 (a photograph of this last exhibition confirms it was this picture and not no. 122 or no. 135 that was on loan)
Washington, DC, Folger Shakespeare Library, May 2017- February 2018. Painting Shakespeare.
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2005. David Garrick.
Washington, DC, Folger Shakespeare Library, May 2017- February 2018. Painting Shakespeare.
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2005. David Garrick.
Cited/described in
Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 121
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Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library FPb37
Genre/form
Portrait paintings.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
FPb37
Folger-specific note
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Folger accession
cs2039