Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
June-July 1920
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/479
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THOMAS PEMBROOKE 1662-1690. looking full. Coat edged with fur, square falling collar, skull cap, hair to the shoulders. Plumbago. Rectangular, 34 by 22 in. On vellum. Signed 1. P. tecit. (414) ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN BAPTISTE PERRONEAU _ 1715-83. 611 orange coat, narrow white frilled collar, short brown hair. Cravons. Oval, 74 bv 10 in. On paper. (437) THE REV). MM. PRPERS. IA: 1742-1814. The only Clergyman elected to the Royal Academy. Miss FRANCES REYNOLDS AND MRs. PALMER, Sisters of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Miss Reynolds is represented half-length, her back slightly turned to the spectator and her face to the left. She is dressed in a full-sleeved bodice, broad-brimmed hat with hanging strings and plumes ; her hair in clusters of curls to the ears. Mrs. Palmer is inclined slightly forward to the left, her face to the right, looking at her sister. She wears a décolleté bodice ; a flowered hat with hanging strings is on her head. Pencil. Rectangular, &8by 11 in. On paper. x* This beautiful drawing, which formerly belonged to the Palmer family, was ascribed by them to Sir Joshua Reynolds. (121)