Portrait of Charles Smith

Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792)

City Art Centre

1760

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.

• Medium: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 76 x 64 cm
• Art Fund Grant: £5000 ( Total: £20,000)
• ArtFunded in: 1997
• Vendor: Historical Portraits/ Philip Mould

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.

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