Portrait of a gentleman traditionally identified as Sir John Osborne, 7th Bt. of Ballentaylor (d.1743), full-length, in a red coat and breeches, with his black tricorn hat under his left arm

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Irish School, 18th century
Portrait of a gentleman traditionally identified as Sir John Osborne, 7th Bt. of Ballentaylor (d.1743), full-length, in a red coat and breeches, with his black tricorn hat under his left arm
oil on canvas
94 x 58 in. (239 x 147.5 cm.)
in a contemporary carved and giltwood gadrooned frame

Provenance

By descent at Newtown Anner, Co. Waterford, through Sir William Osborne, 10th Bt (d.1824) and his sister, Catherine Isabella Bernal-Osborne (d.1880), to her grandson, Osborne de Vere, 12th of St. Albans (d.1964), great-great-uncle of the present owner.

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Lot Essay

Sir John was the second son of Sir Thomas Osborne, 5th Bt. (d.1715), who was knighted in 1679 and succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of a cousin in 1713. He was a member of the Irish Parliament for Lismore in 1719-27 and Co. Waterford in 1727-43 and consolidated his family's interests in that county.

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