Self-Portrait (copy of) Artist: Sir Joshua Reynolds (British, 1723–1792)

after 1788

European Art

Not on view

Medium

Oil on panel

Dimensions

15 3/4 × 12 1/8 in. (40 × 30.8 cm) unframed
19 1/2 × 15 7/8 × 1 3/8 in. (49.5 × 40.3 × 3.5 cm) framed

Credit Line

Gift of Susan Morse Hilles

Accession Number

1984.75.8

Culture

British

Period

18th century

Classification

Paintings

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Art market, Boston; sold to “George Sherborn,” probably Cambridge, Mass., by 1951 [see note 1]; given to Frederick Whiley “Ted” Hilles (1900–1975), New Haven, Conn., about 1951 [see note 2]; by inheritance to Susan Morse Hilles (1905¬–2002), New Haven, Conn., later Boston; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1984

Note 1: A letter from George Sher (b?)orn, a faculty member from the Widener Library at Harvard University to Ted Hilles, states: “…I have too many pictures, one of which I wish to give to you… it is a copy of the Reynolds self-portrait…I got this painting for practically nothing (literally) from a Boston dealer.” (letter from George Sher (b?) orn to “Ted,” November 13, 1951)

Note 2: Ted Hilles was Bodman Professor of English Literature at Yale University and a noted authority on the literary career of Sir Joshua Reynolds.


Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

self-portraits

Subject

man

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