Lot 18
CIRCLE OF ANTONIO DAVID (ITALIAN 1698–1750)
PORTRAIT OF PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD STUART
Jacobite, Stuart, and Scottish Applied Arts | 429
Auction: 13 May 2015 at 12:00 BST
£40,000
Description
And a companion, a portrait of his brother Prince Henry Benedict Clement Stuart, oil on canvas
Dimensions
63cm x 52cm (24.75in x 20.5in)
Footnote
Provenance:
by family tradition the gift of King James and Maria Sobieska
Judge James Graham of Airth, by direct descent to
Helen Graham of Airth
by descent, sold Property of a Gentleman
Note: Antonio David was one of the Jacobite court's official painters in Rome. Both he and his studio produced several copies of this pair of portraits after 1729.
by family tradition the gift of King James and Maria Sobieska
Judge James Graham of Airth, by direct descent to
Helen Graham of Airth
by descent, sold Property of a Gentleman
Note: Antonio David was one of the Jacobite court's official painters in Rome. Both he and his studio produced several copies of this pair of portraits after 1729.
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