SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS (BRITISH 1723 -1792)

SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS (BRITISH 1723 -1792)
Portrait of Edward Pauncefort of Witham-on-the-Hill, Lincolnshire, seated half-length in a blue coat and holding a walking stick,
oil on canvas
91 x 71.5 cm (35 7/8 x 28 1/8 in.)

PROVENANCE
By direct descent within the family to Sir Philip Pauncefort-Ducombe, 4th Baronet
Collection of Michael Simpson (of Hazlitt Gooden and Fox), 38 Bury Street, London SW1
Acquired by the present owners at Young and Son, London, 2008

LITERATURE
Grave and Cronin, History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds (London, 1899-1901), ii, p. 734.
Ellis Waterhouse, Reynolds (London: Kegan Paul, Trench Trubner & Co. Ltd., 1941), p. 46
David Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000), pp. 368-9, no 1408., vol II, fig. 217. (illustrated)