JEAN-ÉTIENNE LIOTARD (1702-1789)
JEAN-ÉTIENNE LIOTARD (1702-1789)

A double portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart (1720-1788) and Prince Henry Benedict Stuart (1725-1807): in red coat and white cravat, wearing the blue sash and the breast star of the Order of the Garter, powdered hair en queue and in pale blue

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JEAN-ÉTIENNE LIOTARD (1702-1789)
A double portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart (1720-1788) and Prince Henry Benedict Stuart (1725-1807): in red coat and white cravat, wearing the blue sash and the breast star of the Order of the Garter, powdered hair en queue and in pale blue coat and white cravat, wearing the blue sash of the Order of the Garter, powdered hair en queue, holding a black hat
rectangular, 2 x 2.13/16 in. (52 x 71 mm.), gilt-metal mount

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Liotard arrived in Rome during Easter 1736 and executed several portraits of the exiled Stuart family who had settled in Rome some years before.
An enamel version of this miniature by the same artist is discussed and illustrated in the exhibition catalogue Portrait Miniatures from the Collection of the Duke of Buccleuch, Edinburgh, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1996/1997, no. 66, p. 93.

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