Auguste-Jean Marie Carbonneaux

Commissioned by George Watson Taylor (1771-1841) through Alexis Delahante (1767-1837) and executed 1817;

Harry Phillips auctioneers, 73 New Bond Street, 11 July 1821, lot 171;

Where acquired by William Beckford (1760-1844), Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire (displayed in the Hall);

From whom acquired by John Farquar, Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire, 1822;

His sale, Harry Phillips auctioneers, Fonthill Abbey, September-October 1823, lot 1562;

Where acquired by Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1^st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1776-1839), Stowe House Buckinghamshire (displayed in the North Hall);

By descent until sold, Stowe sale, Christie’s, 17 August 1848, lot 733;

Where acquired by Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, 10^th Duke of Hamilton (1767-1852), via his agent Robert Hume junior (active 1808–50), Hamilton Palace, Lanarkshire (displayed in the New State Dining Room);

By descent to William Douglas-Hamilton, 12^th Duke of Hamilton (1845-1895);

His sale, Hamilton Palace sale, Christie’s, 17 June – 20 July 1882, lot 892;

William Wareham (1824-1887);

By whom sold to Thomas Merthyr Guest (1838-1904);

By descent to Elizabeth Augusta Grosvenor Guest (1879-1960);

By whom bequeathed to the family of the present owners

T. Henry, Catalogue de tableaux du premier ordre et des trois écoles, réunis par M. de Lahante, dans la galerie Lebrun, rue du Gros-Chenet, no. 4, Paris, 1819, preface, p. xii, preface;

J. P. Neale, Graphical Illustrations of Fonthill Abbey, the seat of Mr John Farquar, London, 1824, p. 9;

C. Malo, Faure-Finant and De Missolz (eds.), Bazar parisien, ou Annuaire raisonné de l'industrie des premiers artistes et fabricans de Paris, Paris, 1826, p. 280;

M-A. Deflandre, Répertoire du commerce de Paris, ou Almanach des commerçans, banquiers, négocians, manufacturiers, fabricans et artistes de la capitale, Paris, 1828, p. 438;

S. Cordier, ‘Inventer et vendre le meuble historique: le goût et la carrière d’Alexis Delahante, peintre, expert et marchand de  curiosités’, Revue de l’Art, 184, no. 2 (2014), p. 68;

F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900, Revised and Amplified Edition by A. Aymonino and E. Dodero, Turnhout, 2024, pp. 379-380, n. 34;

G. Evans, Hamilton Palace: The Dukes of Hamilton and their Collections, Edinburgh, 2025, pp. 409, 410, 417, 526, 610, illustrated in the New Dining Room, Hamilton Palace, fig. 11.50