About the Artwork
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).
Mrs. Richard Paul Jodrell
between 1774 and 1776
Joshua Reynolds
1723-1792
English
Unknown
Oil on canvas
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)
Paintings
European Painting
Bequest of Eleanor Clay Ford
77.7
This work is in the public domain.
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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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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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Joshua Reynolds, Mrs. Richard Paul Jodrell, between 1774 and 1776, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Eleanor Clay Ford, 77.7.
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