Circle of Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787)

Portrait of Sir Thomas Saunders Sebright, 5th Bt. (1723-1761), half-length, in a brown coat with a white shirt

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Circle of Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787)
Portrait of Sir Thomas Saunders Sebright, 5th Bt. (1723-1761), half-length, in a brown coat with a white shirt
with inscription 'Sir Thomas Saunders Sebright/painted at Rome by Pompeo Batoni [SK] about the year 1746' (on an 18th century label attached to the stretcher)
oil on canvas
29¾ x 25in. (75.6 x 63.5cm.)

Provenance

by descent from the sitter.

Lot Essay

The sitter is known to have been in Rome in 1746 (information from the Brinsley Ford Archive, Paul Mellon Center). He was the son of Sir Thomas Saunders Sebright, 4th Bt., M.P. for Hertfordshire, and Henrietta, daughter of Sir Francis Dashwood 1st Bt. of Wycombe.

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