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Pierre Paul Emmanuel de Pommayrac (French, c.1810-1880)

Two boys of the Hennessy family in a landscape: the younger, seated on a green upholstered chair, wearing rust-coloured Petersham coat with black frogging and grey spatterdashes; the elder, standing, wearing trimmed burgundy cape over black suit, a spaniel seated beside them.
Signed on obverse P de Pommayrac, ormolu frame with leaf and berry border and crested by the Hennessy Coat of Arms.
Rectangular, 210mm (8 1/4in) high
Provenance: By family descent

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Although it has not been possible to establish the identity of the brothers depicted in the present lot, as the artist is not recorded as having worked outside France, it can be assumed that they are members of the French line of the Hennessy family.

This line was descended from Richard Hennessy of Ballymacrory, Co. Cork (b.1720). He joined the Dillon Regiment of the French Army and fought at Fontenoy; he later settled in the Cognac area. It was here in 1765 that he established the company trading in Cognac still known as Hennessy & Co..

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