HUGH DOUGLAS HAMILTON, R.H.A. (DUBLIN 1736-1808)

Lot 30
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Lot 30 | HUGH DOUGLAS HAMILTON, R.H.A. (DUBLIN 1736-1808)
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$ 100 000 – 150 000
HUGH DOUGLAS HAMILTON, R.H.A. (DUBLIN 1736-1808)
Portrait of a gentleman, traditionally identified as Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquess of Downshire (1753-1801), small full-length, in a yellow frock coat and breeches, his left arm resting on his cane, a coach and four beyond, in a classical landscape
pastel on paper
36 ½ x 26 in. (92.7 x 66 cm.)




Provenance

James Thursby-Pelham; and by descent.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 30 November 2000, lot 2, where purchased by
Dr. Tony Ryan; Christie's, London, 14 July 2011, lot 75.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 5 July 2017, lot 87.
Acquired by Irene Roosevelt Aitken from the above.



Literature

A. Crookshank and The Knight of Glin, 'Some Italian Pastels by Hugh Douglas Hamilton', Irish Arts Review Yearbook, 1997, 13, p. 69, fig. 10.
A. Crookshank and The Knight of Glin, Ireland's Painters 1600-1940, New Haven and London, 2002, p. 107.
The Knight of Glin and J. Peill, Irish Furniture, London, 2007, p. 220 (illustrated).
N. Jeffares, Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800, London, online edition, J.375.1473 (as 'Man of the Hill family').



Exhibited

London, Christie's and Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery, Treasures of the North, 2000, exhibition catalogue p. 25, no. 11.
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