King George III (1738–1820) (ater Alan Ramsay)
James Watson (Dublin 1739/40 – London 1790)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1760 - 1790
Materials
Paper
Measurements
374 mm (H)280 mm (W)310 mm (H)225 mm (W)
Order this imageCollection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 1396342
Summary
Print, mezzotint, King George III (1738–1820) (after Alan Ramsay) by James Watson (Dublin 1740 – London 1790). Half-length portrait, left profile in court dress. Black and gilt frame, and glazed.
Provenance
Part of the Windham Collection. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1969 by Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969)
Makers and roles
James Watson (Dublin 1739/40 – London 1790), engraver (printmaker) after Allan Ramsay (Edinburgh 1713 - Dover 1784), artist
References
Smart and Ingamells 1999 Alastair Smart and John Ingamells (ed.), Allan Ramsay A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, New Haven and London, Yale, 1999, no. 194