Sir John Watson Gordon, R.A., P.R.S.A. (1788-1864)

Sold by Order of the Executors of the Late Sir Henry Tate, Bt.

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Sir John Watson Gordon, R.A., P.R.S.A. (1788-1864)

Portrait of William Murray Nairne, later 6th Baron Nairne (1808-1837), as a boy, full-length, in a brown suit, by a dog in a landscape

signed and indistinctly dated, lower centre 'J. Watson Pinx/1813[?]'

50 x 39¼in. (127 x 99.7cm.)

Lot Essay

The sitter was the son of William Murray Nairne, 5th Baron Nairne (1757-1830) who was restored to the attainted barony in 1824. On the sitter's death in 1837, the title passed to his cousin Margaret, Baroness Nairne and Keith.

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