Joshua Reynolds
Lady Elizabeth Compton
1781240 x 149 cm
Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
Literature
Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 504
Provenance
Painted for the sitter's husband, Lord George Cavendish (1754-1934), of Keighley
by descent to John Compton Cavendish, 4th Baron Chesham (1894-1952)
with M. Knoedler & Co., London, from whose New York branch it was purchased October 1928 by Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.
deeded December 1934 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh
gift 1937 to NGA
Other works by Joshua Reynolds
William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland
1758
1758
The Honorable Henry Fane with Inigo Jones and Charles Blair
1761-66
1761-66
Cupid Untying the Zone of Venus
Mrs. Lewis Thomas Watson
1789
1789
Portrait of General John Burgoyne
c. 1766
c. 1766