LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

50.24 in. (127.60 cm.) (height) by 39.92 in. (101.40 cm.) (width)

Condition:

in its original carved and gilded frame

Literature:

L. Melville, Beau Brummell: His Life and Letters, London, 1924, illustrated opposite p. 26.

Provenance:

William Brummell (1777-1853), the sitter's son, Wivenhoe House, near Colchester, and by descent to his daughter Georgiana, Lady Piggott (1802-1886), Denston Hall, Suffolk, and by descent. Mary Robinson, Dullingham House, near Newmarket, Cambridgeshire, by 1924. Anonymous sale; Cheffins, Cambridge, 18 June 2014, lot 509.