Francis William Wilkin (1791-1842)

Portrait of Sir Charles Bagot, G.C.B. (1781-1843), half-length, in a black coat with fur collar and wearing the Order of Bath breast Star

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Francis William Wilkin (1791-1842)
Portrait of Sir Charles Bagot, G.C.B. (1781-1843), half-length, in a black coat with fur collar and wearing the Order of Bath breast Star
inscribed 'The Right hon/Sir Charles Bagot K.B./Ambassador to the King of the/Netherlands. Born 1781/1825/drawn by Wilkin/...../London' (on the reverse)
black and white chalk heightened with blue chalk on brown paper
29½ x 24½ in. (75 x 62.3 cm.)

Literature

J. Steegman, Portraits in Welsh Houses, Cardiff, 1962, vol. II, p. 128, no. 26 (as Wilkie).

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Lot Essay

The sitter was the brother-in-law of Lady FitzRoy Somerset and married Lady Mary Charlotte Anne Wellesley-Pole, the niece of the 1st Duke of Wellington. Sir Charles Bagot became Governor-General of British North America in 1842.

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