Mrs. Chalmers, ca. between 1755 and 1760

  • Joshua Reynolds, English, 1723-1792

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 30 1/4 × 25 inches (76.8 × 63.5 cm)
  • 37 × 32 1/8 × 2 5/8 inches (94 × 81.6 × 6.7 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Popular Subscription Fund

26.37

On View

  • British, Level 3, South

Department

European Painting

1920, (Ehrich Galleries, New York, New York, USA)

by 1922, (Robert C. Vose, Boston, Massachusetts)

1926-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA) [for $10,500]

Loan Exhibition of Paintings selected from the Collection of Messrs. R.C. and N.M. Vose of Boston. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1922, unpaginated. [listed at $15,000.00.] Hope-Johnstone, C. "Two English Portraits." Bulletin of the DIA 7, no. 7 (1926): p. 73 (ill.). Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 186 (ill.). Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 109, no. 186. Mannings, David. Sir Joshua Reynolds, A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, 2 vols. New Haven, 2000, vol. I (text), no. 341, p. 127, vol. II (plates), p. 186 (fig. 186).

Joshua Reynolds, Mrs. Chalmers, ca. between 1755 and 1760, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Popular Subscription Fund, 26.37.