Reynolds' Margaret Desenfans gifted to Dulwich Picture Gallery

January 26 2026

Picture: The British Art Journal

Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:

A reader has kindly been in touch with news that the Dulwich Picture Gallery has been gifted Sir Joshua Reynolds' portrait of Margaret Desenfans. The picture, which had been on loan from a private collection for some years, is a likeness of the wife of the gallery's founder, the art dealer Noël Desenfans. Here's an article from the BBC (from 2002) regarding the resurfacing of the painting in the USA back in the late 1990s.

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