Samuel William Reynolds

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Half-length to right in black coat holding papers, right arm unfinished; black hair, dark brown eyes, fresh complexion; plain greenish-brown background.

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Family possession; A. G. Reynolds (great-grandson) 1913; sold 1930 to his brother-in-law Fairbank Kirby whose son and daughter, R. F. Kirby and Mrs Winifred Ashby, sold it to the NPG 1974 (letters in NPG archive).


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.

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