British Pictures and Sporting Art

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Lot 249
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* Sir William Beechey, R.A. Burford, Oxon. 1753-1839 London

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Description

  • Sir William Beechey, R.A.
  • Portrait of a Young Man, Said to be Sir Harry Neal
  • three-quater length, wearing a dark coat with gray trousers and holding a hat, standing in a landscape
  • oil on canvas

Provenance

Mr. Emile Roth, London, until 1906;
Thence by descent to his wife, Marguerite Roth Laveine, Paris, until 1929;
With Edouard Jonas, Paris, 1929;
From whom acquired by Mr. Irving T. Bush, New York;
Thence by descent to his niece, Helen Tunison.

Catalogue Note

We are grateful to Dr. John Wilson who, based on photographs, has confirmed the attribution to Beechey.