Portrait of Charles Smith
Sir Joshua Reynolds
- Art Funded
- 1997
- Dimensions
- 76 x 64 cm
- Vendor
- Historical Portraits/ Philip Mould
The sitter was a prosperous Scottish merchant based at Boulogne-sur-Mer.
Recent research has re-established the sitter as a key informer and Jacobite supporter in the years preceding Bonnie Prince Charlie's invasion of Britain.
Provenance
By descent to the sitter's son, who married Elizabeth Seton of Touch; by family descent at Touch House, Stirling, until 1928; with Spink & Son; Mrs Harrie G Carnell, by whom bequeathed in 1944 to the Dayton Art Institute, USA; by whom de-accessioned