Allan Ramsay, R.A. (Edinburgh 1713-1784)

Portrait of Richard Powney, D.C.L (b. c.1702), half-length, in a brown coat, gold-embroidered waistcoat and white stock, with a tricorne hat under his arm, in a sculpted cartouche

Details

Allan Ramsay, R.A. (Edinburgh 1713-1784)
Portrait of Richard Powney, D.C.L (b. c.1702), half-length, in a brown coat, gold-embroidered waistcoat and white stock, with a tricorne hat under his arm, in a sculpted cartouche
oil on canvas
30 1/8 x 25 1/8 in. (76.5 x 63.7 cm.)
in a George II carved giltwood frame, circa 1750, carved with foliage and with rosette centred cartouches

Provenance

By descent in the sitter's family to L.P. Ebden.
Anonymous sale [Mrs M. Mellon], Christie's London, 7 March 1958, lot 176 (45gns. to Sir Sydney Barratt).
Installed by Sir Sydney Barratt at Summerhill, Staffordshire, and later at Crowe Hall, Bath, 1961 and by descent.

Literature

A. Smart, Allan Ramsay: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, ed. J. Ingamells, New Haven and London, 1999, p. 169, fig. 424.

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Lot Essay

A younger son of John Powney (1704), of Old Windsor, Berkshire, Richard Powney matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford, in 1719. He was subsequently at All Souls, becoming a Bachelor of Civil Law in 1726 and a Doctor in 1731. He is known to have been an editor at the Clarendon Press.

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