FDA-D.428-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-D.428-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
A Ruff and a Reeve
Whiteley
Whiteley
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
collection
collection
Comments
Philip Reinagle was one of the most versatile of late eighteenth-century artists, painting portraits and landscapes as well as sporting pictures, though it was for the latter that he became best known. This study of two game birds was presumably made in connection with one of the large canvases of birds that became one of Reinagle's particular specialties. He made studies of the stuffed tropical birds at Sir Ashton Lever's museum in Leicester Square for the canvases he showed at the Royal Academy in 1786, but exactly where he had the opportunity to draw native species is not known.
Other number
MFW 29
Description
Dimensions
height (actual size): 295mm
width (actual size): 371mm
width (actual size): 371mm
Materials & techniques note
Pencil, pen and grey ink, watercolour
Production
Person
Reinagle, Philip, 1748 - 1833 (Artist)
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Collection of 'Kersley'; collection of L.G. Duke by 1949;; sold though Sotheby's, 10 February 1971 (Lot 165); from which sale purchased by 'Sumner';; collection of Martin Whiteley; by whom bequeathed to Eton College, catalogue number 25
Exhibited: 'A Genius for Watercolour', Christie’s, London, 6 to 24 January 2003, (catalogue number 28); 'Humphrey Ocean: Fresh as Paint', The Verey Gallery, Eton College, 9 June to 30 October 2022
Exhibited: 'A Genius for Watercolour', Christie’s, London, 6 to 24 January 2003, (catalogue number 28); 'Humphrey Ocean: Fresh as Paint', The Verey Gallery, Eton College, 9 June to 30 October 2022
Previous ownership
