[Northcote], Portrait of Edward Gibbon

ATTRIBUTED TO JAMES NORTHCOTE, R.A. (AFTER SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A.)

Portrait of Edward Gibbon (1737–94)

768 by 640mm., oil on canvas, inscribed on the reverse: From the original Picture | by Sir Joshua Reynolds | in the possession of Lord Sheffield

LITERATURE:

D. Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds, A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, New Haven 2000, Text vol., p. 218, cat. no. 725b (as Attributed to Northcote, and perhaps the same picture from the Munby sale).

PROVENANCE:

With Frost & Reed, Bristol, 1937; A.N.L. Munby, Esq. (1913–74), by 1951; sale of his collection, Sotheby's, 5 April 1976, lot 597 (as Northcote), where acquired by the family of the present owner.

EXHIBITED:

Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Le Livre Anglais: Trésors des collections anglaises, 1951, no. 498 (as Northcote).

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