Mrs. Richard Paul Jodrell

between 1774 and 1776

Joshua Reynolds English, 1723-1792

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Fashionable Living, Level 3, South Wing

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Vertue Jodrell was married in 1772 to her second cousin, the classical scholar and dramatist Richard Paul Jodrell. In a departure from normal practice, the couple commissioned their marriage portraits from professional rivals: his is by Thomas Gainsborough (Frick Collection, New York).

Title Mrs. Richard Paul Jodrell

Artwork Date between 1774 and 1776

Artist Joshua Reynolds

Life Dates 1723-1792

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. English

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 30 1/2 × 25 1/4 inches (77.5 × 64.1 cm) Framed: 41 1/4 × 36 × 4 1/8 inches (104.8 × 91.4 × 10.5 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Bequest of Eleanor Clay Ford

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 77.7

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Provenance

Rev. Sir Edward Repps Joddrell (Holt, Norfolk, England)

the sitter's grandson, Bart. Bayfield Hall [d. 1882]

by inheritance to his widow

June 30, 1888, sold by (Jodrell, Christie's, London, England) lot 70

1888, purchased by Samuels, possibly on behalf of Sir Alfred Joddrell of Bayfield Hall [for £451, 10s]

(Duveen Brothers, New York, New York, USA)

January 23, 1930, purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Edsel B. Ford (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA)

1977-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Graves and Cronin. History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds. London, 1899, vol. 2, p. 516.

Leslie and Taylor, Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds. London, 1865, vol. 2, p. 98.

Cormack, M. "The Ledgers of Sir Joshua Reynolds." Walpole Society 42 (1968-70): pp. 105-106.

Mosby, Dewey F. "Curatorial Reports: Department of European Art." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 56, no. 1 (1977): 12–41, p. 23.

City of Detroit. “Arts Department” Journal of the City Council. (May 5, 1977): 1060–1061, p. 1060.

Gazette des Beaux Arts, (supplement) 1310 (March 1978): 95.

Cinco Siglos de Obras Maestras. Exh. cat., Museo de Jade. San Jose, 1978, no. 24, pp. 19, 73 (ill.).

Waterhouse, E. "Three British Portraits." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 57, no. 2 (1979): p. 40, pl. 12 (ill.).

Cummings, Frederick J., ed. Selected Works from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1979, p. 54, no. X (ill.).

Masterpieces from The Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Bunkamura Museum of Art. Tokyo, 1989, pp. 71,212, cat. 39 (ill.).

Mannings, David. Sir Joshua Reynolds, A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings. New Haven, 2000, vol. I (text), p. 279, no. 1007 and vol. II (plates), p. 447, no. 1123.

Secrest, Meryle. Duveen: a life in art. New York, 2004, p. 480.

Penny, Nicholas and Karen Serres. "Duveen's French frames for British pictures." Burlington Magazine 151, no. 1 (June 2009): 388–394, p. 388, note 4.

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