Old Masters including Portrait Miniatures from the Pohl-Ströher Collection

Old Masters including Portrait Miniatures from the Pohl-Ströher Collection

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ANDREA SOLDI | Portrait of Robert Montagu, 6th Earl and 3rd Duke of Manchester (1710-62), three-quarter-length, wearing State robes, with a ducal coronet

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May 7, 02:18 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

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ANDREA SOLDI

Florence c.1703 - 1771 London

PORTRAIT OF ROBERT MONTAGU, 6TH EARL AND 3RD DUKE OF MANCHESTER (1710-62), THREE-QUARTER-LENGTH, WEARING STATE ROBES, WITH A DUCAL CORONET


inscribed lower left: Robert Duke and Earl of Manchester / second son of Charles Duke and / Earl of Manchester

oil on canvas

unframed: 127.3 x 102 cm.; 50⅛ x 40⅛ in.

framed: 157 x 132 cm.; 61 3/4 x 52 in.


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The Dukes of Manchester, Kimbolton Castle, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, from circa 1740;

Until sold, Kimbolton Castle, on the premises, 18 July 1949, lot 188 (as Hudson);

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 7 November 1979, lot 88 (as Joseph Highmore);

Private collection;

Anonymous sale, Edinburgh, Bonhams, 15 January 2020, lot 217 (as English School, 18th century).

Sir W. Musgrave, Painted portraits in many of the public buildings & capital mansions of England, British Museum, Add MS 6391, no. 10;

G. Vertue, 'Notebooks', vol. V, in The Walpole Society, vol. XXVI, 1937-38, p. 82;

J. Ingamells, 'Andrea Soldi, A checklist of his work', in The Walpole Society, vol. 47, 1978-80, p. 12, cat. no. 40 (as whereabouts unknown).

Robert Montagu succeeded to the title of 6th Earl and 3rd Duke of Manchester when his elder brother William died without issue on 21st October 1739. The 2nd Duke and Duchess of Manchester favoured Continental artists, and Soldi maintained his connection with the family in painting the present work in circa 1740 at Kimbolton, upon Robert Montagu's succession to the title.