拍品 8
8
The Property of a Gentleman of Title
Sir Nathaniel Dance, R.A. (1735-1811)

細節
Sir Nathaniel Dance, R.A. (1735-1811)

Portrait of John Osborn (1743-1814), Envoy to the Court of Dresden, seated half-length, in a blue coat with gold embroidery and a cream waistcoat, holding a book

with inscription, upper left and upper right 'John Osborn Esq./Envoy Extraordinary/to the Court of Dresden/1775/Zoffany'

36½ x 28in. (92.7 x 71.1cm.)

拍品專文

The sitter was the second son of Sir Danvers Osborn, 3rd Bt., Governor of New York, after whom Danvers, Massachussets is named, and Lady Mary Montague (d. 1743), great grand-daughter of the 1st Earl of Manchester in the third creation, and third daughter of the 1st Earl of Halifax. He was a Member of Parliament for Bedfordshire and was a Colonel in the Bedford Regiment and Militia. He went on to become Chargé d'Affaires at Naples and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Dresden. During Napoleon's advances he was captured and imprisoned for seven years. He died at Rudolstadt, Saxony, in 1814 having never married.