Attributed to James Lonsdale 1777-1839

Estimate

3,000 - 4,000 GBP

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Description

James Lonsdale
Portrait of Sir William Fowle Middleton, 2nd Bt. (1786-1860)
oil on canvas
122 by 96.5 cm.; 48 by 38 in.

Three quarter length, standing, wearing red robes and holding a tricorn hat

Literature

Edmund Farrer, Portraits in Suffolk Houses West, 1908, p.245, listed as no.17 at Livermere Park

Catalogue Note

The sitter was the son of Sir William Middleton, 1st Bt. and his wife, Harriet Acton, daughter of Nathaniel Acton (see lot 287). In 1825 he married Anne Cust, daughter of Lord Brownlow of Belton.