A gentleman called the Marquis of Huntly, facing right in blue coat with gold buttons, white waistcoat and tied cravat, fair hair

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GEORGE ENGLEHEART (1750-1829)
A gentleman called the Marquis of Huntly, facing right in blue coat with gold buttons, white waistcoat and tied cravat, fair hair
signed and dated on the reverse 'George Engleheart Hertford Street Mayfair Pinxit 1812'
oval, 3½ in. (90 mm.) high, rectangular silver-gilt frame with glazed reverse

Provenance

Sotheby's, London, 10 December 1979, lot 176.

Literature

G. Williamson/H. L. D. Engleheart, George Engleheart 1750-1829 Miniature Painter to George III, London, 1902, p. 101.

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Lot Essay

The sitter is possibly Charles, 10th Marquis of Huntly (1792-1863) who married Lady Elizabeth Conyngham (d. 1839) on 2 March 1826 and secondly Maria Antoinetta (d. 1893) only surviving daughter of Rev. P. W. Pegus by his wife, the Dowager Countess of Lindsey, and by her had issue.
Williamson/Engleheart (loc. cit.) record that the Marquis of Huntley (sic) sat to Engleheart in 1812.

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