Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction
Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction
The Property of Sir Brooke Boothby, 15th Bt., removed from Fonmon Castle, Glamorgan
Sir Joshua Reynolds P.R.A.
Portrait of Robert Jones of Fonmon (1738–1793), three-quarter-length, wearing a Hussar’s uniform, holding a cap, a colonnade to the left
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December 6, 06:47 PM GMT
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The Property of Sir Brooke Boothby, 15th Bt., removed from Fonmon Castle, Glamorgan
Sir Joshua Reynolds P.R.A.
Plympton, Devon 1723–1792 London
Portrait of Robert Jones of Fonmon (1738–1793), three-quarter-length, wearing a Hussar’s uniform, holding a cap, a colonnade to the left
oil on canvas
unframed: 126.4 x 101 cm.; 49¾ x 39¾ in.
framed: 153 x 127 cm.; 60¼ x 50 in.
Commissioned by the sitter, Robert Jones III of Fonmon (1738–1793), to hang at Fonmon Castle, Glamorganshire;
Thence by descent to his son, Robert Jones IV (1773–1834);
Thence by inheritance to his nephew, Robert Oliver Jones (1811–1885);
Thence by descent to his daughter, Edith Alicia Jones, who married Robert Arthur Valpy (1844–1894);
Thence by descent to their daughter, Clara Valpy (1877–1869), who married Sir Seymour Boothby (1866–1951);
Thence by descent in the Boothby family at Fonmon Castle, Vale of Glamorgan, to the present owner.
E.K. Waterhouse, ‘Portraits from Welsh Houses-The Exhibition at the National Museum of Wales’, in Burlington Magazine, vol. XC, July 1948, p. 204;
J. Steegman, A Survey of Portraits in Welsh Houses, Cardiff 1962, vol. II, p. 96, cat. no. 29, reproduced pl. 178;
A. Ribeiro, ‘Hussars in Masquerade’, in Apollo, vol. CV, February 1977, p. 114, reproduced fig. 8;
D. Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds, A Complete Catalogue of his paintings, New Haven and London 2000, text vol., p. 284, cat. no. 1023; plates vol., reproduced fig. 939.
Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, A loan Exhibition of Portraits from Welsh Houses, 1948, no. 57;
London, Museum of London, Masquerade, 1983.