Attributed to Samuel William Reynolds

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Attributed to Samuel William Reynolds
1773-1835
Four Men Drinking Wine at a Table
Point of brush and brown wash, over traces of graphite, on wove paper.
4 11/16 x 7 9/8 inches (120 x 192 mm)
Purchased on the Acquisitions Fund.
1977.14
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Watermark: none.
Since Reynolds worked on Turner's "Liber Studiorum", the third figure from the left may well be a representation of the artist J.M.W. Turner.

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Inscribed in graphite above head of third figure from the left, "J. M. W. Turner".

Provenance: 
Weyhe Gallery, New York.
Bibliography: 

Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 287.

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