Lot Essay
The sitter was the daughter of Roderick Macleod of Bernera, and the wife of Sir John Murray MacGregor, 1st Bt. She married Sir John in 1774 and had one son, Euan John, who succeeded to the baronetcy.
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Portrait of Lady MacGregor (d.1830), wife of Sir John MacGregor, three-quarter-length, in a red dress, her right arm resting on a stone ledge, in a landscape
Details
Circle of Thomas Hickey (1741-1824)
Portrait of Lady MacGregor (d.1830), wife of Sir John MacGregor, three-quarter-length, in a red dress, her right arm resting on a stone ledge, in a landscape
oil on canvas
53 x 40 in. (134.7 x 101.6 cm.)
Portrait of Lady MacGregor (d.1830), wife of Sir John MacGregor, three-quarter-length, in a red dress, her right arm resting on a stone ledge, in a landscape
oil on canvas
53 x 40 in. (134.7 x 101.6 cm.)
Provenance
By descent in the family of the sitter.
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