Footnotes

• PROVENANCE:
  Admiral Sir Lewis Clinton-Baker, Bayfordbury, Herts., 1936;
  Lieut. W.L. Clinton-Baker sale, Christie's London, 1 June 1945, lot 115;
  Sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 20 April 1983, lot 34;
  with Colnaghi, New York.
  
  LITERATURE:
  A. Graves & W.V. Cronin, A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 4 vols, London, 1899-1901, i, 44 (wrongly as two pictures)
  E.K. Waterhouse, Reynolds, London, 1941, 62;
  D. Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, New Haven and London, 2000, I, p 70, and II, p 418, fig. 1019, as untraced.
  
  John Baker, born 1753, was the youngest son of Sir William Baker; he never married.

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Category: Fine Art / 19th Century Paintings

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