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ALLAN RAMSAY (EDINBURGH 1713-1784 DOVER)

Starting price
£ 40 000
Auction dateClassic
22.11.2022 10:00UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
Event location
United Kingdom, London
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ID 848389
Lot 145 | ALLAN RAMSAY (EDINBURGH 1713-1784 DOVER)
ALLAN RAMSAY (EDINBURGH 1713-1784 DOVER)

Portrait of Sir Richard Acton, 5th Bt. (1712-1792), half-length, in a silver-embroidered lilac coat, holding a tricorn hat, in a feigned oval

signed and dated 'A. Ramsay / 1747' (lower right)

oil on canvas

30 1/8 x 25 in. (76.3 x 63.5 cm.)

in a contemporary carved and gilded frame





Provenance

By descent in the family at Aldenham Hall, Shropshire, to the following,

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 26 April 1929, lot 141, 500 gns. to,

Horace Buttery (1902-1962).

with Daniel H. Farr & Co., New York.

Harold Duane Jacobs (1890-1959) and his wife Ethel Epstein Katz Jacobs (b.1889), by whom sold, Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 25 November 1981, lot 50.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 14 March 1990, lot 52, where acquired by the present owners.



Literature

A. Smart, ed. J. Ingamells, Allan Ramsay, A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, New Haven and London, 1999, pp. 69 and 275, no. 2, fig. 228.
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