An Unknown Gentleman
Sir Francis Grant PRA (Kilgraston 1803 - Melton Mowbray 1878)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1823 - 1878
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
324 x 254 mm (12 3/4 x 10 in)
Place of origin
Great Britain
Order this imageCollection
Florence Court, County Fermanagh
NT 631055
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, An Unknown Gentleman by Sir Francis Grant PRA (Kilgraston 1803 - Melton Mowbray 1878). A small, half-length portrait, in a dark coat, fawn waistcoat and a coloured stock, against a crimson curtain background.
Provenance
Removed from Florence Court by the 6th Earl & Countess in 1973; posthumous inventory of the effects of Nancy, Css. of Enniskillen at Kinloch House, Amulree, Perthshire, 22 Dec. 1998, The T.V. Room, 612; Christie's South Kensington, 22 September, 1999, lot 616; bought by National Trust by Private Treaty sale, 1999
Credit line
Florence Court, The Enniskillen Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: with stamp of C. DAVY, ARTISTS COLOURMAN, 83 NEWMAN STREET
Makers and roles
Sir Francis Grant PRA (Kilgraston 1803 - Melton Mowbray 1878), artist