Walter Radcliffe (1733-1803)
Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA (Plympton 1723 - London 1792)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1757 - 1761 - 1763
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
762 x 635 mm (30 x 25 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 872145
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Walter Radcliffe (1733-1803) by Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA (Plympton 1723 - London 1792), circa 1757. A half-length oval portrait of the son of Walter Radcliffe of Warleigh looking to the left and head facing,seen three-quarters wearing a brown/plum-coloured coat and waistcoat with gold togging and white stock. A clean-shaven man with grey eyes, against a dark background.
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 (accepted in lieu of tax by HM Treasury, and transferred to The National Trust in 1957)
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.II, p.781 Armstrong 1900 Sir Walter Armstrong, Sir Joshua Reynolds, First President of the Royal Academy, 1900, p.225 The first hundred years of the Royal Academy, 1769-1868. [1951]., no. 389