Annetta Coke, 1758

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 75.57 × 62.87 cm (29 3/4 × 24 3/4 in.)

framed: 100.01 × 87.31 × 8.57 cm (39 3/8 × 34 3/8 × 3 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

Accession Number

2015.19.45

Artists / Makers

Sir Joshua Reynolds (painter) British, 1723 - 1792

Image Use

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Inscription

upper left, possibly from the 19th century: ANNETTA. D. OF / EDWARD COKE, / WIFE OF LEWIS CAGE / OF MILGATE, KENT; lower left reverse: J. R. 1758

Provenance

The sitter, Annetta Coke [1738-1791, later Mrs. Lewis Cage], Milgate, Kent, England.[1] by descent to her son, the Reverend Charles Cage [1769-1849].[2] (Stafford Gallery, London).[3] (Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell, London); purchased 1903 by William Andrews Clark [1839-1925], New York; bequest April 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] The painting was probably commissioned in celebration of the sitter's marriage to Lewis Cage [d. 1800] on 17 January 1759.

[2] According to Lorna Scott, the great-great-great-great granddaughter of the sitter, Charles Cage bequeathed the portrait to the owner of Milgate House. See correspondence dated 9 and 10 July 2003, between Scott and Corcoran curator Laura Coyle in NGA curatorial files.

[3] See letter from Sir Ellis Waterhouse to Edward J. Nygren, Corcoran curator, dated 28 September 1977, in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Cage, Annetta Coke
Cage, Charles, Rev.
Clark, William Andrews
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell
The Stafford Gallery

Exhibition History

1978: The William A. Clark Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 26 April - 16 July 1978.

2001: Antiquities to Impressionism: The William A. Clark Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 3 November 2001 - 4 February 2002, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

Bibliography

1966: Martin, David F. "Naming Paintings." Art Journal 25, no. 3 (Spring 1966): 252-256.

2000: Mannings, David. Sir Joshua Reynolds: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings. 2 vols. New Haven and London, 2000: 138, no. 385.