Jacques Antoine Arlaud
Portrait of Prince James Francis Edward Stuart (1688-1766), known as 'The Old Pretender'
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
Jacques Antoine Arlaud
Geneva 1668-1746
Portrait of Prince James Francis Edward Stuart (1688-1766), known as 'The Old Pretender'
signed, dated and inscribed on the reverse: J:A Arlaud / pinxit ad / vivum- / Anno - 1703 - / mense maio
in original fitted covered case imitating fishskin with douté border, contained in a hinged silver fitted case engraved on the cover: 'Within this box / is King James ye eight his picture / which he sat to in St Germaines, / in France, in May: 1703, & gave it / out of his owne hand, to Simon Lord / Frasier of Lovat, chief of ye famous / & innuberous Kindred, & Clann of the / Frasers in Scotland, as a particular / mark of his love & favour to ye said Ld, / for his Ancestors Loyalty, & for his / owne great services to his Father King / James ye seventh, while in banish= / ment, & his extrordinary service / & hasards he run in helping / to restore his Majesty'; and on the base: J A Arlaud / pinxit ad - vivum. / Anno - 1703 - mense maio /'; inscrit à l'encre au verso: 'King James / The Eight sat to / this picture in Saint / Germain in France / and gave it out of his own / hand to Simon Lord Lovat / as a mark of his favour for / his services done him & to his / Father K: James the Seventh / while in Exile in France'
watercolour and gouache on vellum
87 mm high
overall weight. (only silver) 195 gr, 6,27 oz
Probably Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat (1667/1668-1747);
The Rt. Hon. the Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham;
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 11 March 1993, lot 4;
With D. S. Lavender (Antiques) Ltd., in 1993;
Madame T.S. Eliot, née Esmé Valerie Fletcher (1926-2012);
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 20 November 2013, lot 54.
London, The Grosvenor House Art and Antiques Fair, D.S. Lavender (Antiques) Ltd., The Culloden Commemorative Loan Exhibition, 1996, no. 10.
J.F. Kerslake, Early Georgian Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London 1977, vol. I, p. 157, and vol. Il, pl. 424 and pl. 425;
G. Reynolds, Wallace Collection Catalogue of Miniatures, London 1980, p. 71;
R. Walker, Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, Cambridge 1992, p. 72;
M. Thibaut, 'Der Miniaturenmarkt nach den Londoner Auktionen: Beschauliche Stabilität', in Handelsblatt, no. 55, 19-20 March 1993, p. G2;
E. Corp, The King over the Water, Portraits of the Stuarts in Exile after 1689, London 2001, pp. 45 and 107.
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