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REYNOLDS JOSHUA: (1723-1792) - REYNOLDS JOSHUA: (1723-1792) English portrait painter. Manuscript D.S., J Reynolds , one page, slim oblong 8vo, n.p., 18 th August 1786. Reynolds acknowledges receipt of a payment made by the executors of the Earl of Thanet for ‘the sum of two hundred and sixty one pounds ten shillings for pictures done for the late Earl of Tenet, in full of all demands’ . With a blind embossed four penny revenue stamp and contemporary docket to the verso. Some light age wear and one very small, minor tear to the centre of the upper edge, otherwise about VG Sackville Tufton (1733-1786) 8 th Earl of Thanet. English nobleman of whom Reynolds had painted a number of portraits in the 1760s and 1770s. Reynolds also created portraits of the Earl’s mistress, Nelly O’Brien (1762-64), his eldest children (in 1766-67), his wife (in 1770) and his younger son the Hon. John Tufton (in 1777).