Live Auction 2175Old Masters and 19th Century Art
Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. (Plympton 1723-1792 London)
Lot 24

Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. (Plympton 1723-1792 London)

Portrait of Bridget Morris, later Mrs. Lockwood, half-length, in a white silk dress and blue robe with ermine trim

Closed4 June 2009

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Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. (Plympton 1723-1792 London)
Portrait of Bridget Morris, later Mrs. Lockwood, half-length, in a white silk dress and blue robe with ermine trim
oil on canvas
30 1/8 x 25 in. (76.6 x 63.5 cm.)

Colonel Morris.
Lord Hastings.
with Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris.
with Knoedler, New York.
M.C.D. Borden, Esq.; American Art Association, New York, 13-14 February 1913, lot 22 ($36,000 to Scott & Fowles).
with Scott & Fowles, New York.

Specialist note

The sitter has traditionally been identified as one of the daughters of Robert Morris of Tredegar, Glamorgan. There are a number of appointments with a 'Miss Morris' in Reynolds's Pocket Book in April 1757 which may feasibly be linked with the present portrait.