CIRCLE OF ANTONIO DAVID (ITALIAN 1698–1750)
PORTRAIT OF PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD STUART
Jacobite, Stuart, and Scottish Applied Arts
Auction: 13 May 2015 at 12:00 BST
£40,000
Description
And a companion, a portrait of his brother Prince Henry Benedict Clement Stuart, oil on canvas
Dimensions
63cm x 52cm (24.75in x 20.5in)
Footnote
Provenance:
by family tradition the gift of King James and Maria Sobieska
Judge James Graham of Airth, by direct descent to
Helen Graham of Airth
by descent, sold Property of a Gentleman
Note: Antonio David was one of the Jacobite court's official painters in Rome. Both he and his studio produced several copies of this pair of portraits after 1729.