Portrait of Sir Richard Acton, 5th Bt. (1712-1792), half-length, in a silver-embroidered lilac coat, holding a tricorn hat, in a feigned oval

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ALLAN RAMSAY (EDINBURGH 1713-1784 DOVER)
Portrait of Sir Richard Acton, 5th Bt. (1712-1792), half-length, in a silver-embroidered lilac coat, holding a tricorn hat, in a feigned oval
signed and dated 'A. Ramsay / 1747' (lower right)
oil on canvas
30 1/8 x 25 in. (76.3 x 63.5 cm.)
in a contemporary carved and gilded frame

Provenance

By descent in the family at Aldenham Hall, Shropshire, to the following,
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 26 April 1929, lot 141, 500 gns. to,
Horace Buttery (1902-1962).
with Daniel H. Farr & Co., New York.
Harold Duane Jacobs (1890-1959) and his wife Ethel Epstein Katz Jacobs (b.1889), by whom sold, Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 25 November 1981, lot 50.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 14 March 1990, lot 52, where acquired by the present owners.

Literature

A. Smart, ed. J. Ingamells, Allan Ramsay, A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, New Haven and London, 1999, pp. 69 and 275, no. 2, fig. 228.

Conditions of sale

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Lot Essay

Sir Richard was the son of Sir Whitmore Acton, 4th Bt., and his wife, Elizabeth Gibbon, a relation of the famous historian Edward Gibbon. He succeeded the baronetcy in 1732 and in 1744 married Lady Anne Grey, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Stamford. The couple only had one daughter, Elizabeth, so on Sir Richard's death the title and the family home, Aldenham Hall, passed to his distant cousin Sir John Acton.

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