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Bust portrait of Horace St. Paul (1729-1812)

Maker

(artist)
1750-1824

Title

Bust portrait of Horace St. Paul (1729-1812)

Date of Production

1779

Medium

black chalk with stumping on paper, framed in black chalk and cut into an oval (with very ragged edges), now laid down on the Courtauld mount

Dimensions

Height: 21 cm
Width: 18 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4461

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords


cockades



Related Works

Bust portrait of Anne Weston, wife of Horace St. Paul

Provenance

E.M. Hodgkins, London (active 1892-1917); his sale, Christie's (London) 29 June 1917, lot 39 (with D.1952.RW.4462, as 'Portrait of Colonel Horace St. Paul, Count of the Holy Roman Empire'); purchased there by Gooden & Fox (London); Major-General James M.L. Renton (1898-1972); his sale, Christie's (London), 21 December 1950, lot 61; purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952) with D.1952.RW.4462, for £42; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 17

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check as is laid down.

Inscription: Recto: lower right, black chalk, dated: “1779”; lower centre edge, outside of framing line, graphite: “over 8”. Unable to see verso.

Collector's mark: none.

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