Jean-Etienne Liotard (1702-1789)

James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Clanbrassil

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Jean-Etienne Liotard (1702-1789)
James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Clanbrassil
signed, dated and inscribed (strengthened) 'james earl of Clanbrassil J E Liotard 1773'
pastel
636 x 510 mm.

Provenance

S.B. Hogg; Sotheby's London, 16 May 1928, lot 41 (to Newton).
with the Pardo Gallery, Paris.

Exhibited

R. Loche and M. Roethlisberger, L'opera completa di Liotard, Milan, 1978, no. 293, illustrated.

Lot Essay

This pastel dates from Liotard's last visit to England in 1773-4.
James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Clanbrassil (1730-1798), a member of the Society of Dilettanti, an MP and a noted botanist, succeeded to the title in 1758. Mrs. Delaney, a cousin of his wife's, described him, shortly after this portrait was taken, as 'old for his age (having lost all his foreteeth), but he is tall, genteel, and very well bred'.
In 1774 he commissioned a second portrait from Liotard, together with a portrait of his wife. The pair was offered at Christie's, 6 July 1993, lot 184, both illustrated.

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