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Auction: 316 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 1210

Artists: Reynolds, Sir Joshua. Influential English portrait painter, and first president of the Royal Academy. A dominant force in English art, the hard-working, gregarious and keenly intellectual Reynolds (1723-1792) was friends with Dr. Samuel Johnson, David Garrick, Swiss-Austrian painter Angelica Kauffman and Edmund Burke among others. Choice Autograph Document Signed "Joshua Reynolds," One page, narrow, oblong 4to, London, November --, 1783. A receipt from a Mr. Wanchope for "one-hundred sixty three pounds five shillings being the amount of an account due to me by the late Earl of Errol as particularly stated in my letter to Mr. Wanchope of the eighteenth of Octr. last and which with [sic] all demands that I had against the said Earl are hereby discharged…" Binder hole at top affecting date, wear to irregular right edge, otherwise in Very Good condition. In his "The Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson," the great biographer James Boswell refers to a full-length portrait done by Reynolds in the Earl´s home in 1773. It is quite likely that the present bill was for money still owned on that work at Errol´s death in 1778.

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