An Unknown Officer
Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA (Plympton 1723 - London 1792)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1758
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
760 x 620 mm (30 x 24 1/2 in)
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485063
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, An Unknown Officer by Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA (Plympton 1723 - London 1792), circa1758. A half-length portrait of a young man, turned slightly to the left, gazing to the right, with brown hair, and wearing a scarlet coat with green facings, a green vest frogged with gold and a deep mulberry sash across his chest from his right shoulder - Kent Yeomanry?
Provenance
By descent to the current Lord Egremont. On loan from the Egremont Private Collection
Credit line
Petworth, 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, 2000, text vol, p.496, no.1988, plates vol. fig. 384