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AFTER SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS P.R.A.
Portrait of Sir William Chambers, R.A. (1722-1796), three-quarter-length, in a crimson jacket, his left hand resting on architectural drawings, Somerset House beyond
oil on canvas
5014 x 4014 in. (127.6 x 102.3 cm)
Provenance
A.J. Pilkington, Parkmore, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland; (†) Christie's, London, 25 July 1930, lot 35, as 'Reynolds' (42 gns. to Parsons).
Professor Sir Albert Richardson, P.R.A (1880-1964); his sale (†), Christie's, London, 18-19 September 2013, lot 385.
with Robert Kime, London, December 2013, where acquired by the present owner.
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Lot Essay

After the picture of circa 1778-80 in the Royal Academy of Arts, London (see D. Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds, A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, New Haven and London, 2000, I, p. 129, no. 346, II, fig. 1296).

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