Sir Thomas Rumbold, Bt.

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Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1788

Sir Joshua Reynolds (English, 1723–1792)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Sir Joshua Reynolds
Title: Sir Thomas Rumbold, Bt.
Place: England (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1788
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 126.7 × 101.3 cm (49 7/8 × 39 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: A. A. Munger Collection
Reference Number: 1955.1202
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Algernon Graves and William Vine Cronin, A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A., vol. 2 (London, 1899), p. 846.
Sir Walter Armstrong, Sir Joshua Reynolds, First President of the Royal Academy (London and New York, 1900), p. 227.
Ellis K. Waterhouse, Reynolds (London, 1941), pp. 80, 96.
Apollo 61 (February 1955), cover ill.
Art Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, [1956]), p. 32.
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 399.
John D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America (New York, 1979), p. 236.
Malcolm Warner in Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago. A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1996), pp. 282–84, ill.
David Mannings and Martin Postle, Sir Joshua Reynolds: A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings (New Haven and London, 2000), vol. 1, pp. 398–9, cat. no. 1551; vol. 2, p. 573, fig. 1552.

Art Institute of Chicago, The Art of the Edge: European Frames, 1300–1900, 1986, no. 71.

Sir Thomas Rumbold, first Bt. (died 1791), Woodhall Park, Watton, Hertfordshire, 1788; by descent to his grandson Thomas Henry Rumbold (died 1882); at his death to his widow; Mrs. Thomas Henry Rumbold (died 1932); offered for sale, Sotheby’s, London, May 14, 1930, lot 93 (ill), bought in; her heirs; sold Sotheby’s, London, October 13, 1954, lot 167, ill., to Agnew [annotated sale catalogue, Ryerson Library]; sold by Agnew, London to William R. Kent, March 1955, and bought back form Kent, November 1955 [Agnew’s stock book, information kindly supplied by Gabriel Naughton]; sold by Agnew to the Art Institute, 1955.

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