Joshua Reynolds

British, 1723-1792

Cupid as Link Boy, 1774

oil on canvas

support: 30 x 25 inches (76.2 x 63.5 cm); framed: 40 x 35 x 3 1/2 inches (101.6 x 88.9 x 8.89 cm)

Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Seymour H. Knox Fund, through special gifts to the fund by Mrs. Marjorie Knox Campbell, Mrs. Dorothy Knox Rogers and Mr. Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1945

1945:2.2

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Provenance

the artist;
sold to John Frederick Sackville, Third Duke of Dorset, 1774;
Duchess of Dorset, by 1817;
Earl of De La Warr, by 1840;
Lord Sackville of Knole;
sold to Thomas Agnew and Sons, 1894;
Alexander Henderson, by 1896;
collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York, soon after 1896;
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, soon after 1896;
sold to the Albright Art Gallery, May 28, 1945

Class

Paintings (visual works)

Work Type

Oil painting (visual work)

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