ALLAN RAMSAY (EDINBURGH 1713-1784 DOVER)
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ID 1344865
Lot 136 | ALLAN RAMSAY (EDINBURGH 1713-1784 DOVER)
Estimate value
20000GBP £ 20 000 – 30 000
Portrait of Lady Frances Carteret, later Marchioness of Tweeddale (1718-1788), three-quarter-length, in a silver gown with an ermine-trimmed blue wrap
signed and dated 'A Ramsay 1748' (lower right)
oil on canvas
49 x 39 in. (124.5 x 99 cm.)
in its original English carved, pierced and gilded frame
Provenance
By descent in the family of the sitter at Yester House, near Gifford, East Lothian, to the seller at the following,
Anonymous sale [The Property of a Lady of Title]; Sotheby's, London, 10 November 1982, lot 30, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
A. Rowan, 'Yester House, East Lothian-II', Country Life, CLIV, 16 August 1973, pp. 431 and 433, fig. 5.
A. Smart in. J. Ingamells, ed., Allan Ramsay, A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, New Haven and London, 1999, pp. 190 and 290, no. 519, fig. 282.
Exhibited
Edinburgh, The Royal Scottish Academy, Works of Old Masters & Scottish National Portraits, 1883, no. 115, lent by the Marquis of Tweeddale.
Artist: | Allan Ramsay (1713 - 1784) |
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Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
Art style: | Old Masters |
Genre: | Portrait |
Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Scotland, Europe, United Kingdom |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
Artist: | Allan Ramsay (1713 - 1784) |
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Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
Art style: | Old Masters |
Genre: | Portrait |
Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Scotland, Europe, United Kingdom |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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