Sir John Chichester, 5th Bt (1721-1784)
Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA (Plympton 1723 - London 1792)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1767
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
762 x 635 mm (30 x 25 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 872143
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Sir John Chichester, 5th Bt (1721-1784) by Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA (Plympton 1723 - London 1792), 1767. A half-length oval portrait, to left, in dark blue coat with red collar and red gold embroidered waistcoat.
Provenance
Accepted by the Treasury in part payment of death-duties from the executors of Edmund Robert Parker, 4th Earl of Morley (1877-1951) and transferred to the Trust in 1957.
Credit line
Saltram, The Morley Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA (Plympton 1723 - London 1792), artist
References
Graves and Cronin 1899-1901 Algernon Graves and W.V.Cronin, A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 4 vols, London 1899-1901, Vol.I, p.169 Armstrong 1900 Sir Walter Armstrong, Sir Joshua Reynolds, First President of the Royal Academy, 1900, p.119 Waterhouse 1941 Ellis K. Waterhouse, Reynolds, London, 1941, p.41