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Portrait of a Woman (said to be Lady Scott)
Sir Joshua Reynolds (English, 1723–1792)
Medium/Technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
76.5 x 64.1 cm (30 1/8 x 25 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Mrs. Harriet J. Bradbury
Accession Number30.492
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings
Provenance1896, David H. King, Jr. (b. 1849 - d. 1916), New York; Feburary 17-19, 1896, King sale, American Art Association, New York, lot 123 [see note 1], sold for $1650 to Blakeslee Galleries, New York, probably for (or later sold to) George Robert White (b. 1847 - d. 1922), Boston [see note 2]; by inheritance from White to his sister, Harriet J. White (Mrs. Frederick T.) Bradbury (b. 1851 - d. 1930), Boston; 1930, bequest of Harriet J. Bradbury to the MFA. (Accession Date: July 3, 1930)
NOTES:
[1] Identified in the catalogue as Reynolds, Portrait of Lady Frances Scott, 1759. [2] White was also purchasing at the King auction, and did busines with Blakeslee. In 1922, he bequeathed to his sister, Harriet J. Bradbury, his collection of pictures and other works of art. No itemized list of these works of art is known, but the collection was almost certainly formed by 1919, the date of his original will. When Mrs. Bradbury died in 1930 she left her art collection, including those items inherited from her brother, to the MFA.
NOTES:
[1] Identified in the catalogue as Reynolds, Portrait of Lady Frances Scott, 1759. [2] White was also purchasing at the King auction, and did busines with Blakeslee. In 1922, he bequeathed to his sister, Harriet J. Bradbury, his collection of pictures and other works of art. No itemized list of these works of art is known, but the collection was almost certainly formed by 1919, the date of his original will. When Mrs. Bradbury died in 1930 she left her art collection, including those items inherited from her brother, to the MFA.