작품 상세

Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA (1723-1792), (SH) PORTRAIT OF LADY WRAY, HALF LENGTH, IN A WHITE-SPRIGGED DRESS AND PINK ERMINE-TRIMMED CAPE Oil on canvas, feigned oval 76 x 63 cm, in a fine mid-18th century carved giltwood frame Provenance: By descent from the sitter to Captain Dalton, Sleninford, near Ripon,Yorkshire; Mrs Dalton; Christie's 29 June 1878, lot 56 (250gns. to Agnew); W. Lee, Esq.; Samuel S. Joseph, Mrs S.S. Joseph, his widow, 1910 (considerable history on file); Christie's, 12 April, 1991, lot 15. Exhibited: London, Royal Academy, 1882, no.2; London, Royal Academy, 1894, no. 6. Literature: C R Taylor and T Taylor, 'The Life and Times of Reynolds', 1865, I, p.282, note 4; A Graves and W V Cronin, 'A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds', 1909, III, p.1070; Sir Walter Armstrong, 'Sir Joshua Reynolds', 1910, p.237, illus. p.25; E.K.Waterhouse, 'Reynolds', 1941, p.59; M.Cormack, 'The Ledgers of Sir Joshua Reynolds', Walpole Socity, XLII, 1970, p.139; David Mannings, 'Sir Joshua Reynolds: a Complete Catalogue of his Paintings', Yale University Press, 2000, cat. no. 1937, p.483, fig. 928. The sitter was born in 1733, the daughter of James Summers of Fillingham, Lincolnshire. She married Sir Cecil Wray Bt. (1734-1805) of Fillingham, who built for her the splendid 'Gothick' Castle at Fillingham to the designs of John Carr of Doncaster. Lady Wray died in 1825 aged 88. Sittings to the artist are recorded in April 1767, and the entry in the artist's ledger notes a payment of 35gns.