Domenico Duprà

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

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Description

Domenico Duprà
Portrait of Bellingham Boyle (1709-1771)
Oil on canvas;
inscribed lower centre: Belengir Boyle Esq. / at Rome 1739 and there is a further transcription of the old inscription on the canvas, verso: Done for Belenginr Boyle Esq. from /Ireland of the Society of Young Gentlemen Travelers at Rome in the year / 1739 and given to Sir James Stewart Bart.
62.3 by 48.4 cm.; 24 4/8 by 19 1/8 in.

Provenance

Comissioned from the artist by Sir James Stewart (1712-1740).

Exhibited

Newcastle upon Tyne, the Hatton Gallery, The Vision of Rome in the 17th, 18th and 19th Century, 1969, no. 244, reproduced, pl. 244

Catalogue Note

Other portraits of Scotsmen by Duprà show James Carnegie of Boysack, John Drummond, 4th Titular Duke of Perth, William Hay of Edrington and Dr. Irwin (National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh), all associated with the Jacobites in exile. These portraits have similar measurements and similar inscriptions on the reverse dating them to 1739. In three cases Dupra is named as the artist in the inscriptions. All were made for Sir James Stewart, a political economist (1712-1780), who travelled the continent from 1735-1740, was well connected to the Jacobites and went into exile after the 1745 rebellion.