22nd Apr, 2021 12:00

Old Master Paintings & Drawings

 
  Lot 165
 

ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN-JACQUES GRANDVILLE (NANCY 1803 - VANVES 1847)

ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN-JACQUES GRANDVILLE (NANCY 1803 - VANVES 1847)
Portrait of Simon Fraser, eleventh Lord Lovat
pen and brown ink, watercolour on paper
355 x 240 mm (14 x 9 1/2 in.)

The present work relates to a print executed by William Hogarth 1746 (see Royal Academy, inv. 17/3855), sketched by the artist at St Albans, where on his way to London for trial and later execution. Jacobite conspirator, Lord Lovat, is sat at a desk on which rest his 'Memoirs'. After his arrest in 1746 Lovat was brought to London for trial. On the way he stopped briefly in St Albans, where William Hogarth arranged to meet him at the White Hart Inn. The result of the meeting was this famous print, published while Lovat was lodged in the Tower of London. The print was much in demand and was the source of numerous contemporary copies.


 

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