Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures
Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures
Works from the Collection of Jean Hart Kislak
Sir William Beechey
Portrait of Sir William Hamilton (1730–1803), half-length, wearing diplomatic uniform, with decorative gold frogging, holding a letter in his left hand
Lot Closed
December 8, 03:41 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Works from the Collection of Jean Hart Kislak
Sir William Beechey
Burford, Oxon 1753 - 1839 London
Portrait of Sir William Hamilton (1730–1803), half-length, wearing diplomatic uniform, with decorative gold frogging, holding a letter in his left hand
oil on canvas
unframed: 90.2 x 69.9 cm.; 35½ x 27½ in.;
framed: 109.9 x 89.9 cm.; 43¼ x 35⅜ in.;
By whom gifted to Sir William Hamilton (1730–1803);
Possibly anonymous sale, Vienna, Österreichischer Kunstverein, 24 October 1912, lot 13 (as William Beechey, Portrait of a clean–shaven elderly Statesman);
With Walter Westfeld of Galerie Kleucker, Düsseldorf, 1938;
Private collection, Germany;
Anonymous sale ('Sold in co-operation with the heirs of Walter Westfeld'), London, Sotheby's, 5 June 2008, lot 82, for £103,250;
Where acquired by the present owner.
W. Roberts, Sir William Beechey, R.A., London 1907, pp. 78 and 269;
J. Ingamells, Mid–Georgian Portraits 1760–1790, London 2004, p. 234 reproduced;
A. Kidson, 'Romney and Emma: Reciprocal Muses', in A. Dunkelman, The Enchantress: Emma, Lady Hamilton. The Jean Kislak Collection, exh. cat., New York 2011, pp. 30–31, reproduced in colour.