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Lot 241
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* Sir Joshua Reynolds P.R.A. Plympton, Devon 1723-1792 London

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Description

  • Sir Joshua Reynolds P.R.A.
  • Portrait of Henry Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk and 5th Earl of Berkshire (1739-79)
  • three-quarter length, seated in an armchair in his library and wearing a grey coat with green waistcoat, a blue ribbon and star of the Order of the Garter, his right hand resting on a writing table
  • oil on canvas

Provenance

Lady Andover (mother of the sitter);
Thence by descent to her daughter, Frances;
Thence by descent to her daughter, Mary, who married Col. Fulke Greville Upton (who assumed the name of Howard);
Thence by descent to Lt.-Col. H. R. G. Howard;
By whom sold, London, Christie's, March 24, 1961, lot 29, to Weitzner;
With Julius Weitzner, London;
Anonymous sale, Paris, Palais Galliera, December 7, 1965, lot 165;
With Newhouse Galleries, Inc., New York;
From whom purchased by a member of the present family on May 4, 1966. 

Exhibited

British Institution, 1844, no. 130 (lent by the Hon. Fulke Greville Howard);
South Kensington,  Second special exhibition of National Portraits, 1867, no. 478 (lent by the Hon. Mrs. Greville Howard).

Literature

A. Graves and W. V. Cronin, A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A., London 1899, vol. III, p. 945;
D. Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds, A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, New Haven 2000, p. 267, cat. no. 951, reproduced fig. 1274.

Catalogue Note

Henry Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk and 5th Earl of Berkshire, was the eldest son of William, Lord Andover and his wife, Mary, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Aylesford.  He was Lord Privy Seal (1771) and Secretary of State for the North (1771-1779).  He succeeded his grandfather, the 11th Earl, on March 21, 1757 (his father, Lord Andover had been killed in a carriage accident in 1756).  Lord Suffolk was married first on May 25, 1764 to Mary, daughter of 1st Viscount Hampden; she died in 1767.  He was married again on Ausust 14, 1777 to Lady Charlotte Finch, daughter of Heneage, 3rd Earl of Aylesford.  Lord Suffolk died in March, 1779.