Important British Paintings 1500-1850

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Lot 68
  • 68

Philippe Mercier 1689-1760

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Description

  • Philippe Mercier
  • Portrait of Mrs Hamilton Gordon of Newhall
  • signed l.l.:Ph.Mercier and later inscribed on the reverse with the identity of the sitter
  • oil on canvas, in a Kent style frame
three-quarter length, standing in a landscape, wearing a green dress, beside a rose bush

Provenance

By descent in the Lockhart family to Sir Charles Lockhart Ross, 9th Bt. (1872-1942), Balnagowan Castle, Ross-shire, and sold from Balnagowan at Sotheby's, 16 November 1966, lot 36;
Anon sale, Christie's, 22 November 1974, lot 11

Literature

John Ingamells and Robert Raines, 'A Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings of Philip Mercier', Walpole Society, Vol.XLVI, 1976-1978, p.23, no.46

Catalogue Note

The sitter was the wife of Charles Hamilton Gordon of Newhall. On 11th December 1766 their daughter Henrietta married Thomas Lockhart, son of Sir James Lockhart 2nd. Bt.