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Portrait of Jonathan Richardson the Younger

Maker

(artist)
1667-1745

Title

Date of Production

(6 August) 1733

Medium

red and white chalk on blue laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 28.8 cm
Width: 24 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1655

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

Richardson’s eldest son, also called Jonathan, did not marry and continued to live at home with his father. The Richardsons shared artistic and literary interests and they collaborated in the writing of books on the art treasures of Italy and on Milton’s Paradise Lost. The two were so close that Richardson Senior described his son as ‘my other self’. The large number of informal portrait drawings Richardson made of him speaks of their harmonious domestic existence.

Provenance

Jonathan Richardson, the elder (1665-1745), L.2184; Sotheby’s (London), 25 - 26 June 1923, lot 43; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952) (£3); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Jonathan Richardson by himself, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 24/06/2015-20/09/2015

Portrait of the Artist as ..., The Courtauld Gallery, London, 26/06/2012-22/07/2012

Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1958-59 ...More

Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London; York City Art Gallery; Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953

Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943

catalogue untraced [recorded on Witt card for D.1952.RW.1655], The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 1938

The age of walnut: loan exhibition in aid of the Royal Northern Hospital at 25 Park Lane, Sir Philip Sassoon, London, 23/02/1932-04/04/1932

catalogue untraced, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1932

A collection of pictures, drawings, furniture and objets d'art, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1924-25 ...Less

Literature

Stephens, Richard and Yaker, Jonny. The Spirirt & Force of Art: Drawing in Britain 1600-1750 (London: Lowell Linbson & Jonny Yarker Ltd, 2018)
p. 88
fig. 19.2

Jonathan Richardson by himself, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 2015
cat. no. 19
Illus. on p. 63

Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1958 - 1959
cat. no. 4 ...More

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 39

Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London, York City Art Gallery and Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953
cat. no. 31

Witt, Sir Robert, 'Further Old Master drawings of the English School' in 'The Antique Collector', May 1936; VII
p. 115
fig. 2 on p. 115 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: lower right, black chalk, dated: "6 Aug 1733".

Collector's mark: Recto: stamped in black: Jonathan Richardson, the elder (L.2184).

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