John Closterman (1660-1711)

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John Closterman (1660-1711)

Portrait of William Keith, 8th Earl Marischal (c. 1664-1712), three-quarter-length, in a purple coat, a white stock and a brown mantle with gold trim, holding a baton and leaning on a plinth

with partly erroneous inscription upper right 'WILLIAM/9th EARL MARISCHAL/Na 1635.Ob1712', and with similar inscription on a label on the reverse 'William 9th Earl Marischal who died in the year 1712...';

48½ x 39½in. (122.5 x 100.3cm.)

Provenance

presumably by descent to Lady Mary Keith, wife of the 6th Earl of Wigton and mother of Lady Clementina Fleming, wife of Charles, 10th Baron Elphinstone

Lot Essay

The sitter, a keen supporter of the Jacobite cause, married Mary, daughter of James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth, circa 1690. He was succeeded by his son George, also a staunch Jacobite, as 9th Earl Marischal (1693-1778).

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