Photo of Portrait of Lillie Smith Aynscombe (18th century) by Joshua Reynolds or a follower

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Artist



Description	British portrait painter
Date of birth/death	16 July 1723	23 February 1792
Location of birth/death	Plympton, Devon	London
Work location	London, Plympton, Italy
Authority control	: Q194402 VIAF: 27081216 ISNI: 0000 0001 0881 5237 ULAN: 500004539 LCCN: n84168483 NLA: 35449606 WorldCat

Title

Lillie Smith Aynscombe Esqr.

Description

English: A portrait of Lillie Smith Aynscombe (c. 1715 – 10 February 1791), a director of the Sun Fire Office from, at the latest, 1754 until his death in 1791. The portrait was painted during his lifetime. Smith Aynscombe was a maternal great-grandfather of Colonel Thomas-Chaloner Bisse-Challoner (Lillie Smith's daughter was Ann Townsend, who was the mother of Katherine Bisse, who was the mother of Challoner). The portrait may have descended to Challoner differently as he was heir to virtually the whole family.

Date

before 10 February 1791 (sitter's death).

Medium

oil on canvas.

Dimensions

29 × 24.5 in (73.7 × 62.2 cm).

Object history

Up to 1915: In the collection of Colonel Thomas-Chaloner Bisse-Challoner at Portnall Park, Virginia Water, Surrey, England, UK: Art Prices Current, vol. 11, 1933, no. 1580. Col. Challoner was the great-grandson of the sitter.
1915: Inherited by a nephew-in-law and moved to Finmere House, Oxfordshire, England, UK.
11 March 1932: Sold by Cecil Fane De Salis through Christie's of King Street, London, to one Mr. Field for 19 guineas (equivalent to £1,200–£3,300 in 2014). Christie's described the work as "'Reynolds, Portrait of Lillie Smith Aynscombe, Esq., in dark brown cloak with white cravat".
16 September 2013: Offered for sale (as "Sir Joshua Reynolds, style of") through Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers, Copenhagen, Denmark (lot 129), but did not sell. Artvalue.com estimated the price at 10,000–12,000 Danish kroner.^[1]

Inscriptions

Date bottom left: LILLIE SMITH AYNSCOMBE ESQ^R. / O^BT. [Died] 1789

References

artvalue

Source/Photographer

1. ARCADJA auction results
2. Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers, 11 August 2014, lot 140

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