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Lot 192

Follower of Sir Joshua Reynolds P.R.A.
(Plympton 1723-1792 London)
The Young Samuel

6 April 2017, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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Follower of Sir Joshua Reynolds P.R.A. (Plympton 1723-1792 London)

The Young Samuel
oil on canvas
91.4 x 61.1cm (36 x 24 1/16in).

Footnotes

Several versions of this composition are known, as is often the case with Reynold's subject pictures. The prime version may have been that bought from Reynolds in 1776 by Robert Charles Manners, Marquess of Granby, later 4th Duke of Rutland, which was destroyed in a fire at Belvoir Castle in 1816, although it is not clear whether this picture was a version of the Infant Samuel or The Calling of Samuel. The present work comes closest to that in the Tate Gallery, London (86.4 x 69.8 cm.) albeit that picture is a few centimetres wider at the left hand edge, suggesting that the present work has been slightly trimmed on that side. Mannings lists a missing version of the present subject (cat. no. 2155, 91.4 x 71.7cm.) as previously in the collection of Lord Edgecumbe. Reynolds also recorded the sale of a Samuel to Augustus Keppel, the present location of which is unknown.

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