SIR WILLIAM CHARLES ROSS, R.A. (1794/95-1860)

Charles Stuart, 12th Baron Blantyre, facing left in black velvet coat, blue waistcoat and red and white embroidered black silk cravat fixed with a jewelled pin

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SIR WILLIAM CHARLES ROSS, R.A. (1794/95-1860)
Charles Stuart, 12th Baron Blantyre, facing left in black velvet coat, blue waistcoat and red and white embroidered black silk cravat fixed with a jewelled pin
signed and dated on the backing paper '1844, Painted by Sir W C Ross, R.A. Miniature Painter to The Queen.'
oval, 2 3/16 in. (55 mm.) high, Victorian gold and enamel bracelet, the portrait miniature set below hinged cover engraved with the foliate cypher of the sitter's wife enamelled in blue, to the tapering foliate engraved hinged strap, within a fitted leather case stamped by the jewellers I. & T. Turner, New Bond Street

Provenance

Charles Stuart, 12th Baron Blantyre, Lennoxlove Castle, Scotland, and by direct descent.

Lot Essay

Charles Stuart, 12th Baron Blantyre, was born in 1818. He married in 1843 Evelyn, second daughter of the 2nd Duke of Sutherland. They had three daughters, Mary (see lot 110), Ellen and Evelyn and a son, Walter, who died unmarried in 1895. On the death of Charles in 1900, the title became extinct.

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