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Portrait of a gentleman traditionally identified as Sir Nicholas Osborne, 6th Bt. of Ballentaylor (d.1718), full-length, in a grey coat, standing with his right hand resting on a table beside his tricorn hat, Fort St. George, Madras beyond
Details
Irish School, 18th century
Portrait of a gentleman traditionally identified as Sir Nicholas Osborne, 6th Bt. of Ballentaylor (d.1718), full-length, in a grey coat, standing with his right hand resting on a table beside his tricorn hat, Fort St. George, Madras beyond
oil on canvas
94 x 58 in. (239 x 147.5 cm.)
in a contemporary carved and giltwood gadrooned frame
Portrait of a gentleman traditionally identified as Sir Nicholas Osborne, 6th Bt. of Ballentaylor (d.1718), full-length, in a grey coat, standing with his right hand resting on a table beside his tricorn hat, Fort St. George, Madras beyond
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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