<i>Luke Gardiner, 1st Viscount Mountjoy (1745-1798)</i>, in a beige, fur-trimmed coat, white stock and striped red waistcoat
<ul><li>with the label 'Luke Viscount Mountjoy painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds This Picture given by CJG [Charles John Gardiner, 1st Earl of Blessington] to Robert Fowler Esq 1839' (on the reverse of the panel)</li>
<li>Reynolds painted another version of this portrait; in a letter, believed to date from July 1773, he told Luke Gardiner 'I shall send away your picture (the best of the two) immediately; the other I know is to remain here. I have forgot what place it is to be sent.'</li></ul>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Joshua_Reynolds" class="extiw" title="w:en:Joshua Reynolds"><span title="English painter (1723-1792)">Joshua Reynolds</span></a>
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1773<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1773-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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