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Portrait of Jonathan Richardson the Younger

Maker

(artist)
1667-1745

Title

Date of Production

(4 October) 1734

Medium

red, white and black chalk on blue laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 33 cm
Width: 25.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2439

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

Jonathan Junior benefitted from the classical education that his father had been denied. Richardson was proud of his son’s accomplishments which he enjoyed vicariously, regarding himself to be ‘as it were Enlarg’d, Expanded, made Another Man by the Acquisition of My Son’.

Provenance

Jonathan Richardson, the elder (1665-1745), L.2184; presumably by descent to his son, Jonathan Richardson Junior (1694-1771); presumably his sale, Langford and Son (London), 5 - 12 February 1772; Reginald Pole; his sale, Sotheby's (London), 26 March 1930 (as a portrait of Lord Granville); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b; 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

catalogue untraced, San Francisco, 1938

Literature

Jonathan Richardson by himself, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 2015
cat. no. 20

Gibson-Wood, Carol, 'Jonathan Richardson as a Draftsman' in 'Master Drawings', 1994 - 203-229; 32, no. 3
p. 218
fig. 17 on p. 221
see attached PDF

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 40

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower right, black chalk, dated: "4 Octr 1734". Verso: lower left, graphite: "141". Mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower left, graphite: "Exhibited San Francisco. 1938"; lower right, graphite: "Jonathan Richardson I. / 1665-1745 / Portrait of Lord Granville / Dated October 4th 1734".

Collector's mark: Recto: lower right, stamped in black: Jonathan Richardson, the elder (L.2184). Verso: lower right corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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