拍品專文
Possibly preliminary studies for the heads of Fame and Painting in de' Pietri's engraved portrait for the frontispiece of Picturae Francisci published in 1704.
This and the following nine lots come from Fingask Castle, which was bought in 1671 by Patrick Threipland, Provost of Perth who was created Baronet in 1687 by King James II. Sir David Threipland, 2nd Bt. joined the Old Pretender in 1715 and his son Stuart (see lot 178) was an equally committed Jacobite, serving as the physician to the Young Pretender in the 1745 uprising. After the defeat at Culloden in 1746 Sir Stuart escaped to France, where he took drawing lessons in Rouen. The French academies were presumably acquired at this period. In 1747 he took advantage of the amnesty and returned to Scotland, where he practised as a physician, eventually becoming President of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh. In 1783 he bought back Fingask Castle
This and the following nine lots come from Fingask Castle, which was bought in 1671 by Patrick Threipland, Provost of Perth who was created Baronet in 1687 by King James II. Sir David Threipland, 2nd Bt. joined the Old Pretender in 1715 and his son Stuart (see lot 178) was an equally committed Jacobite, serving as the physician to the Young Pretender in the 1745 uprising. After the defeat at Culloden in 1746 Sir Stuart escaped to France, where he took drawing lessons in Rouen. The French academies were presumably acquired at this period. In 1747 he took advantage of the amnesty and returned to Scotland, where he practised as a physician, eventually becoming President of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh. In 1783 he bought back Fingask Castle