File:Portrait of Edward Seymour (1717-1792), 9th Duke of Somerset, in peer's robes, holding a coronet.jpg

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Joshua Reynolds: Portrait of Edward Seymour (1717-1792), 9th Duke of Somerset, in peer's robes, holding a coronet   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Joshua Reynolds  (1723–1792)  wikidata:Q194402 s:en:Author:Joshua Reynolds q:en:Joshua Reynolds
 
Joshua Reynolds
Description British painter, writer and art collector
Date of birth/death 16 July 1723 Edit this at Wikidata 23 February 1792 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Plympton London
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London, Plympton, Italy
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artist QS:P170,Q194402
Title
Portrait of Edward Seymour (1717-1792), 9th Duke of Somerset, in peer's robes, holding a coronet
Description
English: Portrait of Edward Seymour, 9th Duke of Somerset (1717-1792)
Date 18th century
date QS:P571,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
, mounted on aluminum panel
Dimensions height: 127 cm (50 in); width: 101.3 cm (39.8 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,127U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,101.3U174728
Object history

Provenance:

  • Possibly Sir Joshua Reynolds, his sale, London, Greenwood's, 14 April, 1796, lot 22 ("the Duke of Somerset, Three-Quarters" for £‎1 13s to Clarke);
  • Edward Adolphus Seymour, 12th Duke of Somerset (1804-1885), Stover;
  • Thence by descent to his grandson, Colonel R. Harold St. Maur (1869-1927), Horton, Chipping Sodbury;
  • His sale, London, Christie's, 10 July 1925, lot 41 (£483 to Leggatt);
  • With Leggatt Bros., London;
  • Lillian S. Whitmarsh, New York;
  • By whose executors sold, New York, Parke-Bernet, 8 April 1961, lot 300.
  • Auction: Sotheby's, New York, 27 January 2023, Master Paintings and Sculpture Part II, lot 581
Inscriptions signed lower right: J. Reynolds
Source/Photographer https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2023/master-paintings-and-sculpture-part-ii/portrait-of-edward-seymour-1717-1792-9th-duke-of

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