Paintings in the Collection of Henry Clay Frick, 1915 [page 133]

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SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A. (1723 - 1792) LADY SKIPWITH Canvas, 40 inches by 50 inches

Three-quarter length. Seated on a garden bench; head turned to the left, almost in profile; white muslin gown with blue ribbons; muslin fichu; at the breast a bunch of pink roses. On her powdered hair a white hat with ostrich feathers, and in her right hand she holds a white glove; foliage background; sky to left. Eldest daughter of Hon. George Shirley and Mary, daughter of Humphrey Sturt of Horton and granddaughter of Robert, first Earl of Ferrers. She was also granddaughter of Humphrey Parsons, Lord-Mayor of London. She married Sir Thomas George Skipwith, Bart., on September 8, 1785; and sat for this portrait a couple of years later, as noted in Leslie and Taylor's "Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds." Vol. II., p. 512. She became a widow in July, 1790. In 1864 the picture was at Tunbridge Wells, the property of Sir Peyton d'Estoteville Skipwith, Bart., who was then a minor of seven years and who died in 1891, when it became the property of his son, Sir Grey Humberton d'Estoteville Skipwith, Bart., eleventh and present baronet, from whom the picture comes. It is mentioned in Armstrong's "Reynolds," p. 229, and illustrated in Vol. VII. of the engraved works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, published by H. Graves. It has also been engraved by G H. Every in 1864. Exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery, 1889, No. 14. Exhibited at the Old Master Exhibition, Knoedler & Co. The Skipwith name, originally spelt Schypwye, is derived from the town and lordship of Skipwith in Yorkshire, the family having been founded by Robert de Estouteville, Baron of Cottingham, in the time of the Conqueror. 133 DN

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