拍品 80
80
VARIOUS PROPERTIES
Circle of William Aikman (1682-1731)

細節
Circle of William Aikman (1682-1731)

Portrait of John Douglas, half-length, in a red coat and waistcoat, feigned oval

with inscription, on the reverse 'Mr. John; first born/of Sr. William Douglas/&: Helen Erskine/Anne 1703[?]'

30 x 25in. (76.2 x 63.5cm.)

拍品專文

The sitter was the eldest son of Sir William Douglas, 2nd Bt., great-grandson of Sir William Douglas, 1st Earl of Queensberry and 9th Baron of Drumlanrig, and his wife Helen, daughter of Col. John Erskine, Deputy Governor of Stirling Castle. He succeeded as 3rd Baronet on the death of his father in 1743. He married Christian, daughter of Sir William Cunningham of Caprington, and was succeeded by his eldest son William on his death in 1728.