RICHARD COSWAY, R.A. (BRITISH, 1742-1821)

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RICHARD COSWAY, R.A. (BRITISH, 1742-1821)
Richard Chetwynd, 5th Viscount Chetwynd of Bearhaven, County Kerry (1757–1821) in blue coat with brass buttons, white knotted cravat, powdered hair
Signed and dated on the backing card 'R.dus Cosway / R.A. / Primarius Pictor / Serenissimi Walliae / Principis / Pinxit / 1791'
On ivory
Oval, 73 mm. high, gilt-metal frame, the reverse with plaited hair panel

Provenance

Recorded in the collection of The Viscount Chetwynd, 25 Elvaston Place, by 1897 (see Literature).
The Rt. Hon. The Viscount Chetwynd; Christie's, London, 10 April 1962, lot 95 (part lot).
Christie's, Geneva, 12 November 1975, lot 125.
Christie's, Geneva, 9 November 1976, lot 83.

Literature

G. C. Williamson, Richard Cosway, R.A. and his Wife and Pupils. Miniaturists of the Eighteenth Century, London, 1897, p. 104, as 'Richard, fifth Viscount Chetwynd (a fine figure in a blue coat)'.
Christie's, Review of the Year, 1962, illustrated p. 62.

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Please note that the backing card is signed and dated 1791.

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Lot Essay

The sitter was the son of William Chetwynd, 4th Viscount Chetwynd of Bearhaven (1721-1791) and Susannah Cope (d. 1790) and he was born at Haywood Park, Staffordshire, He was Clerk to the Privy Council between 1772 and 1821 and gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the York Fencible Infantry Regiment. His correspondence with the Earl of Liverpool between 1781 and 1791 is preserved at The British Library.

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