Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd

  • Oil on canvas
  • 50 × 40 inches · 1270 × 1016 mm
  • Painted 1776
    Engraved: In mezzotint as Maternal Love by J. Scott, 1865.
     

Collections

  • Commissioned by Samuel Rolleston of Great Pan Manor, Isle of Wight;  
  • Samuel Rolleston, son of the above, (1775- 1860);
  • George Rolleston, son of the above, (1812-1870); 
  • William Vilett Rolleston (1842-1921), son of the above; 
  • Major George Reginald Aubrey Rolleston (b.1873);
  • Major George Villet Rolleston (d.1989);
  • George Lancelot St. Leger Rolleston (1939 -2005);
  • Natalia Rolleston, daughter of the above, to 2017  

Exhibitions

  • Birmingham, 1931 (no. 60, 'Mrs Rolleston & Child', lent by G. Rolleston Esq.)

Literature

  • A. Graves and W.V. Cronin, A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynold, London, 1899-1901, vol. ii, p. 842 ('Mrs Rollestone');
  • Malcolm Cormack, ‘The Ledgers of Sir Joshua Reynolds’, The Walpole Society, 1968-1970, vol.42, pp.161-162;
  • David Mannings and Martin Postle, Sir Joshua Reynolds, New Haven and London, 2000, no.1548, p.398 ('Mrs Rollestone', as untraced).

Private collection, USA