Live Auction 17196Old Masters Day Sale
Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. (Plympton 1736-1792 London)
Lot 199 PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION (LOTS 191, 193-5, 197, 199 AND 203)

Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. (Plympton 1736-1792 London)

Portrait John Manners, Marques of Granby (1721-1770), small full-length, beside a horse

Closed5 July 2019

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Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. (Plympton 1736-1792 London)
Portrait John Manners, Marques of Granby (1721-1770), small full-length, beside a horse
oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm.)

Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle (1811-1864), Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire, by 1858, and by descent to his son,
Henry Pelham-Clinton, 6th Duke of Newcastle (1834-1879), and by descent to his son,
Henry Pelham-Clinton, 7th Duke of Newcastle (1864-1928), and by inheritance to his brother,
Francis Pelham-Clinton-Hope, the Earl of Lincoln (1866-1941); his sale, Christie's, London, 31 March 1939, lot 47, sold for 147 gns. to the following,
with Agnew's, London, from whom acquired in 1943 by,
C.G. Hoare, M.C.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 22 March 2005, lot 45.

Specialist note

This is a preparatory sketch for Reynolds’s monumental full-length portrait of John Manners, Marquess of Granby, painted between 1763-5, and now in The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota. Painted soon after the successful conclusion of the Seven Years' War (1756-63), Granby, the Commander-in-Chief of British Forces in Europe, is shown standing in the battlefield at Vellinghausen, the scene of a key victory against the French in July 1761. The Sarasota picture is thought to have been given by Granby to the Marshall Duke of Broglie, commander of the French forces, has therefore been interpreted as a representation of magnanimous victory, much like Velázquez's celebrated Surrender at Breda (1634-5; Madrid, Museo del Prado).