Master Paintings & Sculpture Part I

Master Paintings & Sculpture Part I

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Property from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sold to Benefit the Acquisition Fund

Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A.

Portrait of Nancy (née Parsons) Horton (circa 1735–1814 or 1815), Later Viscountess Maynard

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February 1, 04:16 PM GMT

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600,000 - 800,000 USD

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Property from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sold to Benefit the Acquisition Fund

Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A.

Plympton, Devon 1723 - 1792 London

Portrait of Nancy (née Parsons) Horton (circa 1735-1814 or 1815), Later Viscountess Maynard


oil on canvas

canvas: 36 ¼ by 28 in.; 92.1 by 71.1 cm.

framed: 46 ½ by 38 in.; 118.1 by 96.5 cm.

In the collection of the sitter and thence by descent in the Maynard family, Easton Lodge, Essex, to Frances Greville, née Maynard (1861-1938), 5th Countess of Warwick;

With Frank. T. Sabin, London, 1928;

From whom acquired by Agnew & Sons, London;

From whom acquired by Jules Semon Bache (1861-1944), New York, 1928;

The Bache Foundation, New York 1944-1945;

From whom acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1945.

C.R. Leslie and T. Taylor, Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds, vol. I, London 1865, pp. 278, 282, 347, 430; vol. II, pp. 41, 54;

A. Graves and W.V. Cronin, A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds P.R.A., vol. II, London 1899, pp. 486, 635, 732;

A Catalogue of Paintings in the Collection of Jules S. Bache, New York 1929, n.p., reproduced;

"The Antiquarian's Picture Gallery," in Antiquarian 13 (September 1929), p. 37, reproduced;

Unknown Masterpieces in Public and Private Collections, W.R. Valentiner (ed.), vol. I, London 1930, cat. no. 92, reproduced;

A.L. Mayer, "Die Sammlung Jules Bache in New-York," in Pantheon 6 (December 1930), p. 542;

H. Tietze, Meisterwerke europäischer Malerei in Amerika, Vienna 1935, p. 340, reproduced pl. 228 [English edition, Masterpieces of European Painting in America, New York 1939, p. 325, reproduced pl. 228];

A Catalogue of Paintings in the Bache Collection, New York 1937, n.p., cat. no. 60, reproduced;

E.K. Waterhouse, Reynolds, London 1941, p. 59, reproduced pl. 120;

A Catalogue of Paintings in the Bache Collection, revised edition, New York 1943, n.p., cat. no. 60, reproduced;

"English Portraits in the Jules Bache Collection," in Connoisseur 113 (March 1944), pp. 51, 53, reproduced;

J.L. Allen and E.E. Gardner, A Concise Catalogue of the European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1954, p. 83;

D. Loeffler Smith, "Great Artists as Teachers," in American Artist 29 (September 1965), p. 60, reproduced;

M. Cormack, "The Ledgers of Sir Joshua Reynolds," in Walpole Society 42 (1970), pp. 122, 124, 142;

E. Waterhouse, Reynolds, London 1973, pp. 21, 47, cat. no. 48, reproduced pl. 48;

A. Ribeiro, The Dress Worn At Masquerades in England, 1730 to 1790, and Its Relation to Fancy Dress in Portraiture, D.Phil. dissertation, Courtauld Institute of Art 1984, p. 246, reproduced pl. 90;

K. Baetjer, European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born Before 1865: A Summary Catalogue, New York 1995, p. 186, reproduced;

D. Mannings and M. Postle, Sir Joshua Reynolds: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, vol. I, New Haven 2000, p. 264, cat. no. 939; vol. II, reproduced fig. 938;

K. Baetjer, British Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575–1875, New York 2009, pp. 74-76, 189, cat. no. 31, reproduced;

H. Belsey, Thomas Gainsborough: The Portraits, Fancy Pictures and Copies after Old Masters, vol. II, New Haven and London 2019, p. 584, under cat. no. 623.

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Bache Collection, 16 June - 30 September 1943, no. 60;

Toronto, Art Gallery of Toronto, Loan Exhibition of Great Paintings in Aid of Allied Merchant Seamen, 4 February - 5 March 1944, no. 57;

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500–1800, 9 September 2013 - 5 January 2014, no. 100b.