Sir Walter Blackett, Baronet (1707–1777)

Artist Sir Joshua Reynolds British, 1723–1792

Date18th century

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.6 cm)
Frame: 59 x 49 x 3 1/4 in. (149.9 x 124.5 x 8.3 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Newhouse Galleries

Object numberG.64.4.2

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceSir Walter C. Blackett (the sitter), Newcastle-on-Tyne, England; Sir Alfred Trevelyan, Nettlecomb Court, Somersetshire, England, 1884; Sir Walter Trevelyan, Nettlecomb Court, England; private English collection; Newhouse Galleries, NY; given to NCMA 1964.Published ReferencesW. Armstrong, Sir Joshua Reynolds - First President of the Royal Academy (London, 1890), 194.

A. Graves and W. V. Cronin. Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A., Vol. 1 (London, 1899), 87.

A. Graves, A Century of Loan Exhibitions 1813-1912. Vol. 3 (London), no. 68.

Art Quarterly 27, no. 2 (1964), 205, illus. 216.

Gazette des Beaux-Arts (Supplement to La Chronique des Arts), no. 1153 (1965), 48, illus.

British Paintings to 1900: Catalogue of Paintings, Vol. 2, 2nd ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1969), no. 103, illus. (b-w).

"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 6, no. 4 and 7, no. 1 (1966/67?), mentioned 4, listed 74, illus. (b-w) 52, fig. 11.

David Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000), no. 181, listed 90-91, Vol. 1, illus. (b-w) 401, Vol. 2).
Exhibition HistoryLondon, England, Grosvenor Gallery, 1884, no. 68.

Charlotte, NC, Mint Museum of Art , “Visiting Masterpiece,” February 15, 1991-February 28, 1992.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “History and Mystery: Discoveries in the NCMA British Collection,” August 6, 2016–June 25, 2017. Object Rights Statement

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