Portrait of Richard Raines Savage, full-length, seated, in a black coat and white waistcoat, with two dogs, in a landscape

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Sir John Watson Gordon, R.A., P.R.S.A. (1788-1864)
Portrait of Richard Raines Savage, full-length, seated, in a black coat and white waistcoat, with two dogs, in a landscape
oil on canvas
35 x 28½ in. (89 x 73 cm.)

Provenance

Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 9 July 1997, lot 57 (£6,600).

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Lot Essay

Little is known about the sitter. Edward Baines's Directory of Yorkshire, II, 1823, p. 399 lists a Richard Raines (or Raimes) Savage, presumably the father of the sitter, as a gentleman living at Wheldrake who appears to have been baptised on 24 February 1767.

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