Lady Sarah Bunbury Sacrificing to the Graces

1. Commissioned by Sir Thomas Charles Bunbury, sixth Bt. (d. 1821), husband of the sitter, apparently for 250 gns [Malcolm Cormack, “The Ledgers of Sir Joshua Reynolds,” Walpole Society 42 (1968–70, pp. 112, 145]; by descent to his nephew’s grandson, Sir Henry Charles John Bunbury, tenth Bt., Barton Hall and Mildenhall, Suffolk, to at least 1905 [Armstrong 1905]. Charles J. Wertheimer (d. 1911), London, by 1908 [according to London 1908]; sold Christie’s, London, May 10, 1912, no. 63, to Sulley [see London 1986]. Henry Reinhardt Gallery, New York and Chicago, by 1915; sold by Reinhardt to Mrs. W. W. Kimball (d. 1921), Chicago, 1915 [see American Art News 1915]; on loan to the Art Institute of Chicago from 1920; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1922.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• London, Society of Artists, 1765, no. 104, as “A lady sacrificing to the graces, whole length.”
• London Royal Academy of Arts, Works by Old Masters and Deceased Masters of the British School, 1908, no. 153.
• The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Great Portraits by Famous Painters, 1952 , no. 22.
• Detroit Institute of Arts, Romantic Art in Britain: Paintings and Drawings, 1760–1860, 1968, no. 6, traveled to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
• Art Institute of Chicago, European Portraits, 1600–1900, in The Art Institute of Chicago, 1978, no. 8.
• London, Royal Academy of Arts, Reynolds, 1986, no. 57.

• Pierre Jean Grosley, A Tour, to London; or New Observations on England, and Its Inhabitants, tr. by Thomas Nugent, vol. 2 (London, 1772), p. 39.
• William Jackson, The Four Ages, Together with Essays on Various Subjects (London, 1798) pp. 172–73.
• Edward Edwards, Anecdotes of Painters who have resided or been born in England with remarks on their productions (London, 1808), p. 189.
• James Barry, The Works of James Barry, Esq., Historical Painter, vol. 1 (London, 1809), p. 22.
• John Heneage Jesse, George Selwyn and His Contemporaries, vol. 2 (London, 1843), ill. (engraving of detail by J. Cook) opp. p. 88.
• William Cotton, Sir Joshua Reynolds and His Works (London, 1856), p. 100.
• William Cotton, A Catalogue of the Portraits Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knt., P.R.A. (London, 1857), p. 12.
• Charles Robert Leslie and Tom Taylor, Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds, with Notices of Some of His Contemporaries, vol. 1 (London, 1865), pp. 247–48, 250.
• Edward Hamilton, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Engraved Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. from 1755 to 1822 (London, 1884), p. 87.
• Algernon Graves and William Vine Cronin, A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A., vol. 1 (London, 1899), pp. 124–25.
• Sir Walter Armstrong, Sir Joshua Reynolds, First President of the Royal Academy (London and New York, 1900), ill. (photogravure) opp. p. 20, pp. 167, 196.
• Lady Sarah Lennox, The Life and Letters of Lady Sarah Lennox 1745-1826, vol. 2 (London, 1901), opp. p. 12, ill.

Madonna and Child with Two Angels

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Sir Thomas Rumbold, Bt.

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Sir Joshua Reynolds

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Lady Elizabeth Montagu

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Portrait of Woman in Profile

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Mrs. Pelham Feeding Her Chickens

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