Prince Charles Edward Stuart (1720-1788) as a child with his gloved left hand resting on his hip, in pale mauve coat with silver button holes, silver waistcoat and lace cravat, wearing the blue sash and breast star of the Order of the Garter and holding the badge of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle

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ANTONIO DAVID (1698-1750)
Prince Charles Edward Stuart (1720-1788) as a child with his gloved left hand resting on his hip, in pale mauve coat with silver button holes, silver waistcoat and lace cravat, wearing the blue sash and breast star of the Order of the Garter and holding the badge of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle
oil on copper
oval, 3 1/8 in. (82 mm.) high, pierced and cast foliate gilt-metal frame

Provenance

Sotheby's, London, 1 December 1987, lot 28.

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Lot Essay

Several other portraits of Bonnie Prince Charlie as a child by A. David are recorded; see Phillips, London, 12 July 1999, lot 188, and D. Nicholas, The Portraits of Bonnie Prince Charlie, Maidstone, 1973, pp. 4-5.

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