Live Auction 7888Old Master & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings & Watercolours (Day Sale)
Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. (Plympton, Devon 1723-1792 London)
Lot 255 THE PROPERTY OF NANCY, LADY BAGOT (LOTS 254 and 255)

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

Portrait of William Bagot, later 1st Baron Bagot (1728-1798), half-length, in a grey coat with a blue waistcoat, in a feigned oval

Closed8 December 2010

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Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. (Plympton, Devon 1723-1792 London)
Portrait of William Bagot, later 1st Baron Bagot (1728-1798), half-length, in a grey coat with a blue waistcoat, in a feigned oval
oil on canvas
29 7/8 x 24 7/8 in. (76 x 62.6 cm.)

By descent to Gerald, 5th Lord Bagot; Sotheby's, London, 17 October, 1945, lot 106, and subsequently reacquired by the family.

Specialist note

The sitter succeeded his father, Sir Walter Bagot, 5th Bt., on the latter's death in 1768, and was created 1st Baron Bagot in 1780. He was Member of Parliament for Staffordshire (1754-1780). For the portrait by Reynolds of the sitter's wife, see the previous lot.