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KILLADOON HOUSE, PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT IRISH ESTATE

ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS MURRAY | PORTRAIT OF HENRY STEWART (D. 1717) AS A BOY, FULL-LENGTH, SEATED BENEATH A TREE WITH HIS DOG, WITH SHIPS AT SEA BEYOND

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January 21, 06:17 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 GBP

Lot Details

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KILLADOON HOUSE, PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT IRISH ESTATE


ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS MURRAY

Scotland 1663 - 1735 London

PORTRAIT OF HENRY STEWART (D. 1717) AS A BOY, FULL-LENGTH, SEATED BENEATH A TREE WITH HIS DOG, WITH SHIPS AT SEA BEYOND


inscribed lower left: HENRY STEWART. / D.1717.

oil on canvas

126.5 x 101.2 cm.; 49¾ x 39⅞ in.

The sitter was the son of William Stewart (1625-1706) and Margaret Shaw (b. 1625), who married in 1664 and lived at Killymoon Castle, County Tyrone in Northern Ireland, which William's father had purchased in 1634. Henry Stewart became High Sheriff of County Tyrone in 1711, and according to a photographic file at the Heinz Archive and Library he was the last High Sheriff to burn a witch.