Unknown man [graphic] / attributed to Sir Joshua Reynolds.
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Title
Unknown man [graphic] / attributed to Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Created/published
[eighteenth or nineteenth century]
Description
1 painting : oil on canvas ; 26 7/8 x 20 7/8 in. (68.3 x 53 cm)
Material base
canvas
Note
Purchased as a portrait of David Garrick. Conservation in 1988 revealed completely different clothing and body pose underneath.
Title from Pressly.
Title from Pressly.
Publications about material
New York Times, 28 November 1912 (mentions that it brought the highest price paid at Daly sale); Burnim 1984, p. 206 (doubts attribution and identification)
Provenance
Provenance: Collection of Augustin Daly (on exhibit in Daly's Theatre in New York)
Source of acquisition
Daly sale, Anderson Galleries, Continuation of Anderson Auction Company, Madison Ave. at 40th St., New York [1915]; 489 Park Ave. at 59th St. [1917]; from September 1929 combined with American Art Association, 27 November 1912, lot 49, repr., $1,000 plus 10 percent commission, Smith acting as agent.
Cited/described in
Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 135
Genre/form
Portrait paintings.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
FPb39
Folger-specific note
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