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拍品专文
James Dawkins was the eldest son of Henry Dawkins II (1728–1814) and his wife Lady Juliana Colyear (1736–1821), daughter of Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore. He took the additional name Colyear by Royal License in 1835, after succeeding to the estates of his cousin Thomas Colyear, 4th Earl of Portmore. In September 1785 he married Hannah Phipps, daughter of Thomas Phipps of Heywood, Wiltshire, with whom he had three children. In 1814 he married his second wife, Maria Forbes, daughter of General Gordon Forbes.
The Dawkins family made their fortune through the ownership of enslaved people. Henry Dawkins II, the sitter's father, lived in Jamaica from c.1751 to 1759. He was painted by Maurice-Quentin de la Tour in a pastel today in the National Gallery, London (c. 1750-52). In 1754 Henry Dawkins II is recorded as owning almost 25,000 acres of land in Jamaica and this inheritance, bequeathed to James Dawkins in 1812 (shortly before his father's death), included seven sugar plantations, three livestock pens and various smaller properties throughout the island. In 1759 Henry left Jamaica for England, where he became a Member of Parliament. For more information on Henry Dawkins II and his son, see the online biographies at UCL Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery.
As was customary for wealthy young gentleman, James Dawkins travelled to Italy as part of a Grand Tour of Europe, during which he sat for Hugh Douglas Hamilton for the present pastel, either whilst in Florence in December 1783 or when he travelled on to Rome (J. Ingamells, op.cit). Another pastel of Dawkins, by Hamilton, also passed by descent in the sitter's family to the Rev. E.H. Dawkins and was sold in these Rooms, 28 February 1913, lot 9, and subsequently twice more in these Rooms, 10 June 1999, lot 11, and 14 July 2011, lot 76. That pastel shows the sitter pictured with two sarcophagi: the 'Sarcophagus of the Muses', now at the Louvre, Paris and the sarcophagus on which Dawkins is seated, which is in the Capitoline Museum. Dawkins's uncle, also called James, had formed an art collection that included a painting of himself and a fellow traveller, Robert Wood (1717–1771) by Gavin Hamilton (1723–1798) entitled Dawkins and Wood discovering Palmyra (1758, National Gallery of Scotland), and a set of the Seasons by Rosalba Carriera (1673–1757).
The Dawkins family made their fortune through the ownership of enslaved people. Henry Dawkins II, the sitter's father, lived in Jamaica from c.1751 to 1759. He was painted by Maurice-Quentin de la Tour in a pastel today in the National Gallery, London (c. 1750-52). In 1754 Henry Dawkins II is recorded as owning almost 25,000 acres of land in Jamaica and this inheritance, bequeathed to James Dawkins in 1812 (shortly before his father's death), included seven sugar plantations, three livestock pens and various smaller properties throughout the island. In 1759 Henry left Jamaica for England, where he became a Member of Parliament. For more information on Henry Dawkins II and his son, see the online biographies at UCL Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery.
As was customary for wealthy young gentleman, James Dawkins travelled to Italy as part of a Grand Tour of Europe, during which he sat for Hugh Douglas Hamilton for the present pastel, either whilst in Florence in December 1783 or when he travelled on to Rome (J. Ingamells, op.cit). Another pastel of Dawkins, by Hamilton, also passed by descent in the sitter's family to the Rev. E.H. Dawkins and was sold in these Rooms, 28 February 1913, lot 9, and subsequently twice more in these Rooms, 10 June 1999, lot 11, and 14 July 2011, lot 76. That pastel shows the sitter pictured with two sarcophagi: the 'Sarcophagus of the Muses', now at the Louvre, Paris and the sarcophagus on which Dawkins is seated, which is in the Capitoline Museum. Dawkins's uncle, also called James, had formed an art collection that included a painting of himself and a fellow traveller, Robert Wood (1717–1771) by Gavin Hamilton (1723–1798) entitled Dawkins and Wood discovering Palmyra (1758, National Gallery of Scotland), and a set of the Seasons by Rosalba Carriera (1673–1757).