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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 5, 2012 | Sotheby's | London | Old Master & British Paintings Day Sale | 276 | $****** - ****** | Portrait Of a Gentleman On Horseback, Probably James Douglas-hamilton, 5th Duke Of Hamilton And 2nd Duke Of Brandon (1703-1743), Mounted On a Bay Hunter, With His Groom.. |
paintings
112 x 105.5 cm (44.09 x 41.54 in)
oil on canvas
signed, centre right: J.WOOTTON / fecit, and indistinctly inscribed on an old label, verso, which bears a wax seal stamped with the Hamilton crest
Probably commissioned by the sitter, and by descent to his son James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton and 3rd Duke of Brandon (1724-1758)
Probably by descent to his son, James Hamilton, 7th Duke of Hamilton and 4th Duke of Brandon (1755-1769)
Probably by inheritance to his brother, Douglas Hamilton, 8th Duke of Hamilton and 5th Duke of Brandon (1756-1799)
Proabably inheritance to his uncle, Archibald Douglas-Hamilton, 9th Duke of Hamilton and 6th Duke of Brandon (1740-1819), who is the first recorded owner of the picture
By inheritance to his daughter Lady Charlotte, who married Edward St. Maur, 11th Duke of Somerset (1775-1855)
By descent to their son, Edward Adolphus St. Maur, 12th Duke of Somerset (1804-1885), as part of the Stover Collection
Stover Collection sale, London, Christie's, 28 June 1890, lot 23, for 25½ gns. to Ramsden (as an unidentified gentleman)
Sir John Frenchville Ramsden, 6th Bt. (1877-1958), the grandson of the 12th Duke of Somerset, at Bulstrode Park, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire
His sale, London, Christie's, 27 May 1932, lot 131, for 52 gns. to Arthurton (as an unidentified gentleman)
Purchased from the above by Maxwell Raison, Esq. (1901-1988)
His sale, London, Sotheby's, 19 July 1985, lot 6, for £28,000 to the present owner (as said to be the Duke of Somerset).
