Portrait of John Rolle Walter, three-quarter-length, in a blue-lined coat with gold trimming and a blue and gold waistcoat, beside a curtain

Details

Attributed to Thomas Hudson (1701-1779)
Portrait of John Rolle Walter, three-quarter-length, in a blue-lined coat with gold trimming and a blue and gold waistcoat, beside a curtain
with identifying inscription (lower left)
oil on canvas
49¾ x 40 in. (126.5 x 101.6 cm.)

Provenance

By descent to Lord Clinton, Bicton, Devon.
Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 22 November 1985, lot 107 (sold £2,600), as 'Thomas Hudson'.

Exhibited

Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Loan Exhibition of Works by Early Devon Painters, 1932. no. 56, as by Sir Joshua Reynolds, lent by Lord Clinton, Bicton, Devon.

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Lot Essay

John Rollé Walter was born in 1713, the son of John Rollé, Member of Parliament for Stevenstone, and his wife Isabella, daughter of Sir William Walter, 2nd Bt. He was educated at New College, Oxford. He asumed the name Walter on inheriting from his Uncle, Sir Robert Walter, 4th Bt., on his death in 1731. In 1750 he also inherited the estates of his brother Henry, Lord Rollé.

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