Agostino Brunias

Commissioned by Sir William Young, 1st Bt (1725–1788), Governor of Dominica;

By descent to his son, Sir William Young, F.R.S. (1749–1815), Governor of Tobago;

Anonymous sale, Paris, Hotel Drouot, 9 March 1951, lot 74 (as one of a pair);

Private collection, France;

Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 25 September 2003, lot 424;

Where acquired by the mother of the present owners. 

L. Honychurch, ‘Chatoyer’s Artist: Agostino Brunias and the Depiction of St Vincent’, in Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society, 1, 2004, pp. 105–28, reproduced in colour fig. 15.

ENGRAVED

T. Milton, published in B. Edwards, The History, Civil and Commercial of the British Colonies in the West Indies, 4^th ed., London 1807, vol. I, facing p. 407.