Portrait of Sir Andrew Cathcart, 4th Bt. of Carleton, half-length, in an officer's uniform

Details

Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A. Stockbridge 1756-1823 Edinburgh
Portrait of Sir Andrew Cathcart, 4th Bt. of Carleton, half-length, in an officer's uniform
oil on canvas
30 x 24¾ in. 76.2 x 60.3 cm.

Provenance

By descent in the family of the sitter until 1916.
W.D.N. Perine.
Arthur R. Botham, New York and Alford, Mass., circa 1930-82 (+); Botham estate auction, Alford, Mass., from where purchased by the present owner in 1982.

Exhibited

New York, Knoedler & Co., Raeburn Exhibition, 13-27 April 1925, no. 15 (lent by W.D.N. Perine).
New York, Jacques Seligman & Co., Portraits by Sir Henry Raeburn, 28 March-16 April 1938, no. 12 (lent by Arthur R. Botham).
Williamstown, Massachusetts, The Sterling and Francine Clark Institute, on loan, September 1988-January 2001.

Lot Essay

The third son of Sir John Cathcart, 2nd Bt. and Elizabeth Kennedy, daughter of Sir John Kennedy of Culzean, 2nd Bt., Sir Andrew Cathcart succeeded to the Baronetcy in 1783 upon the death of his elder brother, Sir John Cathcart, 3rd Bt. The present work is believed to have been executed circa 1790.

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