Details
A French simulated terracotta plaster bust of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, cast after the original by John Baptiste Lemoyne, on spreading square plinth, the reverse inscribed Charles Edward Stuart, par J.B. Lemoyne, 1748, 19½ins (49.5cms) high
Provenance
Fingask Castle, Sale on the Premises, sold Christie's 26th April 1993, Lot 48.
Literature
The Threiplands of Fingask, A Family Memoir, by Robert Chambers, L.L.D., published by W.& R. Chambers, Edinburgh and London, 1880, page 79, which refers to the above, "Besides a couple of pictures representing the Prince and his brother Henry......., there was seen over a deeply-moulded doorway, a bust of the former personage, done also in early life, but probably after the Rebellion."
(500-800
(500-800