These chairs, with their florid acanthus-wrapped scrolls, reflect the George IV 'French' style, introduced by the architect Sir Jeffrey Wyattville (d.1840) at Windsor Castle in the 1820s. Designs for related chairs feature in room plans of the period executed by Gillows of Lancaster (preserved in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Art Gallery, Lancaster). They provided a very similar suite for the drawing-room created by the architect Lewis Wyatt (d.1853) at Tatton Park, Cheshire (see: N. Goodison and J. Hardy, 'Gillows at Tatton Park', Furniture History, 1970, pp. 1-39 and I. Grant, 'The Machine Age', The History of Furniture, London, 1976, p. 194)
Another pair of chairs, almost certainly from the same suite as these, were sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 27 June 1985, lot 85 and are now in the Victoria and Albert Museum