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Sir Joshua Reynolds P.R.A. (Plympton 1723-1792 London) Portrait of Mrs Thomas Pelham, later Countess of Chichester, half-length, wearing a black and red dress with lace sleeves, leaning on a closed book image 1
Sir Joshua Reynolds P.R.A. (Plympton 1723-1792 London) Portrait of Mrs Thomas Pelham, later Countess of Chichester, half-length, wearing a black and red dress with lace sleeves, leaning on a closed book image 2
Sir Joshua Reynolds P.R.A. (Plympton 1723-1792 London) Portrait of Mrs Thomas Pelham, later Countess of Chichester, half-length, wearing a black and red dress with lace sleeves, leaning on a closed book image 3
Lot 66

Sir Joshua Reynolds P.R.A.
(Plympton 1723-1792 London)
Portrait of Mrs Thomas Pelham, later Countess of Chichester, half-length, wearing a black and red dress with lace sleeves, leaning on a closed book

Old Master Paintings
5 July 2023, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £11,520 inc. premium

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

Portrait of Mrs Thomas Pelham, later Countess of Chichester, half-length, wearing a black and red dress with lace sleeves, leaning on a closed book
oil on canvas
76.3 x 63.4cm (30 1/16 x 24 15/16in).

Footnotes

Provenance
Collection of the Earl of Chichester, by whom sold 1899 to
Charles Wertheimer
With Knoedler, London, 1921 (inv. no. 1974.57)
Sale, Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina, 20 May 2022, lot 578 (as Property from a South Carolina Plantation), where purchased by the present owner

Literature
A. Graves and W.V. Cronin, A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds P.R.A., London, 1899, vol. II, cat. no. 736
E.K. Waterhouse, Reynolds, London, 1941, p. 42
D. Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, New Haven and London, 2000, pp.370-1, cat. no. 1418, ill., fig. 219

Anne Pelham, born circa 1735, was the daughter and heiress of Frederick Meinhardt Frankland, a British MP and Director of the Bank of England between 1736-8. Anne married Thomas Pelham on the 7 June 1754 at Mortlake, later becoming Countess of Chichester when her husband was created Earl of Chichester in June 1801. The Earl, Thomas Pelham, was a politician, having been elected to parliament for Rye in 1749 and represented the county of Sussex from 1754 to 1768. Anne was eventually widowed in 1805 and her eldest son inherited his late father's title as the 2nd Earl of Chichester. Anne is recorded to have sat for this portrait in 1756 or 1757.

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