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Catalogue of the Henry C. Frick Collection of Paintings, 1908 [pages 24-25]
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33 REYNOLDS, SIR JOSHUA, P. R. A. 1723-1792 LADY MARGARET BEAUTMONT — Half-length in oval, nearly full face turned to left, black dress, white muslin around the neck. On her head she wears delicate cap of dark material which is tied around the neck with a blue ribbon.
Margaret, daughter of John Willes of Astrop, Northampton, and grand-daughter of Lord Chief Justice Willes. Married May 6, 1778, Sir George Howland Beaumont, 7th Bart, died in the year 1829. This portrait was painted in 1779 or 1780 (see lists of Sir Joshua's sitters for March of each year in Leslie and Taylor's "Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Vol. II, p. 280 and 312).
The above authority states in Vol. II, p. 224, that "Some of his most charming female heads are of this period as Lady Beaumont, the beautiful wife of his friend Sir George." Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower, F. S. A., says in part in his book on Sir Joshua, p. 86: "Two beautiful ladies' portraits by Reynolds belong to this year, that of Lady Beaumont, wife of the artistic Baronet, and that of Mrs. Payne Galway."
Sir Walter Armstrong, in his work on Reynolds, p. 118, mentions this portrait, and that of Sir George Beaumont in his index, p. 193, and speaks of Lady Beaumont's portrait being exhibited in 1780, the year that saw the transfer of the Academy Exhibition to its new home in Somerset House.
Engraved by J. R. Smith (1780) and by S. W. Reynolds. Exhibited: Royal Academy, 1780, No. 12. Exhibited: British Institution, 1813, No. 107. Exhibited; British Institution, 1858, No. 165.
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Exhibited: National Portrait Exhibition, 1867, No. 548 Exhibited; Grosvenor Gallery, 1884, No. 183. Canvas: W. 25 1/8; H. 30 1/8. This picture comes from the family.
34 REYNOLDS, SIR JOSHUA, P. R. A. 1723-1792 SIR GEORGE HOWLAND BEAUMONT — Bust, face almost in profile, looking to the right, wears a black coat with white scarf around the neck and powdered wig.
Seventh Bart, D. C. L., F. R. S., and F. S. A. Only child of Sir