William de Vere, 9th Duke of St Albans (1801-1849) in Ducal robes, facing right, his right hand resting on his coronet; urn and draped white curtain background

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HENRY COLLEN (1798-d. after 1872)
William de Vere, 9th Duke of St Albans (1801-1849) in Ducal robes, facing right, his right hand resting on his coronet; urn and draped white curtain background
signed and dated in full in pencil on the reverse '1849 Portrait of William-Aubrey-De-Vere Beauclerk 9th Duke of St Albans. from a Miniature by Mrs Mee, copied by Henry Collen, Miniature Painter to the Queen, 29 Somerset Street Portman Square London.'
rectangular, 67/8 x 5 in. (175 x 128 mm.), ormolu frame

Provenance

Sotheby's, London, 19 July 1965, lot 22.
Christie's, London, 16 December 1980, lot 287 (as by Anne Mee).

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Lot Essay

William Aubrey de Vere, 9th Duke of St Albans, bore the sceptre with the cross at the Coronation of King William IV. He married Harriet (d. 1837) widow of Thomas Coutts and daughter of Matthew Mellon, Lieutenant Madras Infantry in 1827 and secondly Elizabeth Catherine, youngest daughter of Major-General Joseph Gubbins of Stoneham, Hampshire and Kilfrush, co. Limerick in 1839 and had issue.

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