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Circle of Nathaniel Hone (1718-1784)
Lot 117

Circle of Nathaniel Hone (1718-1784)

Portrait of a young boy, traditionally identified as Master Ridley, three-quarter-length, in a grey suit with gold braid and a feathered hat, holding a riding whip, in an interior with the sea beyond

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Circle of Nathaniel Hone (1718-1784)
Portrait of a young boy, traditionally identified as Master Ridley, three-quarter-length, in a grey suit with gold braid and a feathered hat, holding a riding whip, in an interior with the sea beyond
oil on canvas
30 x 25 (76.2 x 63.5 cm.)

Mary, Lady Carbery, Castle Freke, Co. Cork, and by inheritance to her son
Anthony Sandford, Castlehill, Fileigh, Devon and by inheritance through Lettice Mackintosh Sandford, Eye Manor, Leominster, Herefordshire, to Jeremy Sandford, Hatfield Court, Leominster, Herefordshire.

Specialist note

The sitter has traditionally been identified as 'Master Ridley' but may be a member of the Evans-Freke family. Castle Freke, where this portrait is known to have hung, was bought by the Frekes in the seventeenth Century. In the late 1780s Sir John Evans Freke, 2nd Bt., abandonned the old castle and built a new house on a more convenient site with splendid views of Rosscarbery Bay. The house was eventually sold by Mary, Lady Carbery's son Algernon, 10th Baron Carbery, after the First World War, and is now a ruin.