An Unknown Naval Officer
Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA (Plympton 1723 - London 1792)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1760 - 1765
Materials
Oil painting on canvas
Measurements
762 x 635 mm (30 x 25 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486295
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, An Unknown Naval Officer by A half-length portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds (Plympton 1723 - London 1792), 1760/65. A half-length portrait of a young man, turned three-quarters right, gazing at the spectator, with brown natural hair, and wearing a gold braided dark green coat with a white stock and vest against a sky background.
Provenance
Recorded at No. 4 Grosvenor Place in 1847 and at Petworth in 1856. Thence by descent, until the death in 1952 of the 3rd Lord Leconfield, who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-72) arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by H.M.Treasury.
Credit line
Petworth House, The Egremont Collection (acquired in lieu of tax by HM Treasury in 1956 and subsequently transferred to the National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
666 (on reverse)
Makers and roles
Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA (Plympton 1723 - London 1792), artist