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Lot 64

Studio of Antonio David
(Venice 1698-1750 ?)
Portrait of Maria Clementina Sobieska, half-length, in a brown dress and black shawl

6 April 2017, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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Studio of Antonio David (Venice 1698-1750 ?)

Portrait of Maria Clementina Sobieska, half-length,
in a brown dress and black shawl
oil on canvas
42 x 31.5cm (16 1/2 x 12 3/8in).

Footnotes

Provenance
By descent at Cullen House, Banffshire, presumably from James Ogilvy, 4th Earl of Findlater and 1st Earl of Seafield (1663-1730), the noted statesman and Secretary of State for Scotland, to John Charles Ogilvy-Grant, 7th Earl of Seafield, by whom bequeathed to
Major William Baird of Lennoxlove, and thence by descent to the present owner

Exhibited
Glasgow, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, The Palace of History: Scottish Exhibition of National History, Art and Industry, 1911

Literature
J. Kerslake, Early Georgian Portraits, London, 1977, vol. I, p. 181

Maria Clementina Sobieska (1702-1735) was the granddaughter of King John III Sobieski of Poland, the wife of James Francis Edward Stuart, Jacobite pretender to the British throne, and mother of Charles Edward Stuart, 'Bonnie Prince Charlie'. Versions of this portrait are at Versailles and Lennoxlove.

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