Allan Ramsay
John Prideaux Basset (1740-56), c. 1747-8
Oil on canvas
59 ½ x 38 ½ in. (51.1 x 97.8 cm)
Signed lower right: A. Ramsay
Engraved: John Faber (mezzotint)
Copy: Joseph Wright of Derby (charcoal) 1750 - 1 Derby Museums and Art Gallery 1920-805
Engraved: John Faber (mezzotint)
Copy: Joseph Wright of Derby (charcoal) 1750 - 1 Derby Museums and Art Gallery 1920-805
Philip Mould & Co.
Provenance
By descent to A.L. Basset Tehidy Park, Cornwall;His sale Christie's, January 9th 1920 (139), bought by Robinson for 230gns;
With Knoedler, London, 1921;
MacNicol, Glasgow, 1953;
Bought by the 2nd Viscount Weir (d. 1975);
By descent to 2003.
Literature
J. L. Caw, Allan Ramsay Portrait Painter, Walpole Society, XXV, 1937, p. 47;Connoisseur, CXXI, 1953, p. 72, 113;
Alastair Smart (edited John Ingamells), Allan Ramsay: A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, Yale, 1999, no. 40, fig. 258
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