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Richard Monckton Milnes, 1^st Lord Houghton (1808-1885)

by family descent until

Sotheby’s, London, The Duchess, Property & Precious Objects from the Estate of Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe, 28 May 2015, lot 71

Purchased at the above sale

Leeds, The Royal Yorkshire Jubilee Exhibition, 1887, unnumbered

This highly finished drawing is rare within Lawrence’s oeuvre on account of its subject and large scale. The work descended within the family of Richard, 1^st Lord Houghton until 2015, whereupon it was sold by the executors of Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe (1915-2014), along with much of the contents of her maternal family home, West Horsley Place in Surrey.