Allan Ramsay (Edinburgh 1713-1784 Dover)
George Raymond Glanville; called; wearing a red military coat (circa 1753)
signed and dated (lower right) 'A. Ramsay 1752'
bears inscription (on label verso)
oil on canvas, feigned oval
77 x 63.5 cm. (30 5/16 x 25 in.)
in original carved and gesso frame
signed and dated (lower right) 'A. Ramsay 1752'
bears inscription (on label verso)
oil on canvas, feigned oval
77 x 63.5 cm. (30 5/16 x 25 in.)
in original carved and gesso frame
Sold for
£46,850
inc. premium
Footnotes
- PROVENANCE:
The Earls of Rothes
Sir Robert Spencer-Nairn, 1st Bt.,
Thence by descent
LITERATURE:
A. Smart, Allan Ramsay: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, ed. J. Ingamells, New Haven and London, 1999, no. 197, p.122, fig. 441
Youngest son of William Glanville (formerly Evelyn). Married Jane, Countess of Rothes, in 1766. Died Brighton 1770.
At the time Ramsay painted this attractive portrait of George Glanville the artist was coming to the end of his first long and very successful London period. The young officer seems lost in thought and his detachment from the viewer is accentuated by Ramsay's choice of a rather formal composition.
Category: Fine Art / Scottish Art
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