A Fortune Teller (after Sir Joshua Reynolds)
William Rimer (1825 - London 1892)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1851
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1105 x 1397 mm (43 1/2 x 55 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Knole, Kent
NT 129927
Caption
The composition of this painting appears to have been derived from Caravaggio’s Fortune Teller, now in the Louvre. The original painting by Reynolds, of which this is a 19th-century copy, was bought by the 3rd Duke of Dorset in 1778. It remained at Knole until 1890, when it was sold to Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild (1839-1898). It is now at Waddesdon Manor (National Trust).
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Fortune Teller (after Sir Joshua Reynolds) by William Rimer (1825 - London 1892), 1851. The original described in 1777 (St James's Chronicle) as a gipsy telling a young girl, sitting on her lover's knees, her fortune and seems to be saying to her that she will soon be married to him at which she laughs and is pleased without well knowing what it means. A copy of a picture at Waddesdon (National Trust), which was formerly at Knole. Framed.
Provenance
On loan from the Trustees of the Sackville Estate
Makers and roles
William Rimer (1825 - London 1892), publisher after Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA (Plympton 1723 - London 1792), publisher