Portrait of Mrs. Thomas Watkinson Payler

Portrait of Mrs. Thomas Watkinson Payler
Portrait of Mrs. Thomas Watkinson Payler
Image Rights & Reproductions Requirements
Artist
nationality
British
birth-death
1723-1792
Creation date
Collection
European
Materials
oil on canvas
Dimensions
30 x 25 in.
Currently On View
Location
English 1600-1700 Gallery
Credit line
The Clowes Fund Collection
Accession number
C10065
Provenance

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Provenance Research is on-going at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and information will be added to this record as research is completed. Please contact Annette Schlagenhauff, Assoc. Curator of Research, at aschlagenhauff@imamuseum.org with any questions.
Gallery Label

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This portrait was done at the time of the sitter's marriage to Thomas Watkinson Payler in 1771. The following year, her twenty-four-year-old husband's portrait was completed by Reynolds as a companion piece. For the two pictures the artist was paid seventy guineas, a considerable sum for the time. Reynolds, having been appointed the first president of the Royal Academy in 1768, enjoyed a reputation as the foremost portraitist of his age.

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