A double portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart (1720-1788) and Prince Henry Benedict Stuart (1725-1807); in red coat, wearing the blue sash and breast star of the Order of the Garter, powdered hair en queue and in pale blue coat and white cravat, wearing the blue sash of the Order of the Garter and holding a black hat under his left arm, powdered hair en queue

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JEAN-ÉTIENNE LIOTARD (SWISS, 1702-1789)
A double portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart (1720-1788) and Prince Henry Benedict Stuart (1725-1807); in red coat, wearing the blue sash and breast star of the Order of the Garter, powdered hair en queue and in pale blue coat and white cravat, wearing the blue sash of the Order of the Garter and holding a black hat under his left arm, powdered hair en queue
rectangular, 2 13/16 x 2 in. (72 x 50 mm.), fitted fishskin case (deficient)

Provenance

Sotheby's, London, 10 July 1990, lot 15.

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Lot Essay

Liotard arrived in Rome during Easter 1736 and executed several portraits of the exiled Stuart family who had settled in Rome some years before.
An enamel version of this miniature by the same hand is discussed and illustrated in the exhibition catalogue Portrait Miniatures from the Collection of the Duke of Buccleuch, Edinburgh, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1996/1997, no. 66, p. 93.

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