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Portrait of Charles Smith
Artist: Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792)
Location: City Art Centre
Date: 1760
Materials: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 76 x 64 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £5,000 (Total: £20,000)
Vendor: Historical Portraits Ltd
Review number: 4506 (1997)
Provenance:
By descent to the sitter's son, who married Elizabeth Seton of Touch; by family descent at Touch House, Stirling, until 1928; with Spink & Son; Mrs Harrie G Carnell, by whom bequeathed in 1944 to the Dayton Art Institute, USA; by whom de-accessioned 1966.
Description:
The sitter was a prosperous Scottish merchant based at Boulogne-sur-Mer. Recent research has re-established the sitter as a key informer and Jacobite supporter in the years preceding Bonnie Prince Charlie's invasion of Britain.
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