Charity
Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA (Plympton 1723 - London 1792)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1780
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
950 x 745 mm
Place of origin
England.
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485047
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Charity by Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA (Plympton 1723 - London 1792), circa 1780. A mother, full face, gazing at the spectator, holding a child seated on a cushion; left, below, a child is reaching up to them. At right, standing full face, a little boy is drinking and at right there is a burning lamp. Apparently a pasticcio derived from Alessandro Allori's Judith in the Palazzo Pitti, Florence and Baroccio. In 1780 Reynolds was producing his designs for the window in New College Oxford and a Charity was among them.
Credit line
Petworth House, The Egremont Collection
Makers and roles
Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA (Plympton 1723 - London 1792), artist
References
Mannings 2000: David Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds: A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings. The Subject Pictures catalogued by Martin Postle, New Haven & London 2000, Text vol. p.515, no.2033