Portrait of King George III (1738-1820), full-length, in coronation robes, his crown on a cushion on a table beside him; and Portrait of Queen Charlotte (1744-1818), full-length, in coronation robes

Details

Studio of Allan Ramsay (Edinburgh 1713-1784 Dover)
Portrait of King George III (1738-1820), full-length, in coronation robes, his crown on a cushion on a table beside him; and Portrait of Queen Charlotte (1744-1818), full-length, in coronation robes
oil on canvas
98 ¼ x 64 7/8 in. (249.4 x 164.9 cm); and 95 ¾ x 60 1/8 in. (243 x 152.7 cm.)
a pair

Provenance

(Probably) George Grenville (1712-1770), paid for on 24 June 1764, and by descent to,
(Probably) George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham (1753-1813), Wotton House, Buckinghamshire, and by descent to,
Algernon William Stephen Temple-Gore-Langton, 5th Earl Temple of Stowe (1871-1940), Wotton House, from whom acquired by,
The Hon. Hubert Beaumont (1862-1922), Wotton House, circa 1911, and by descent to his son,
Michael Beaumont (1903-1958), Wotton House, and by descent to the present owner.

Literature

(Probably) J. Simon, ‘Allan Ramsay and picture frames’, The Burlington Magazine, CXXXVI, 1994, p. 455, no. 21.
(Probably) A. Smart, Allan Ramsay. A complete catalogue of his paintings, J. Ingamells, ed., New Haven and London, 1999, p. 115, no. 192as.

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Lot Essay

These portraits are fine versions of Ramsay's celebrated portrait types of King George III and Queen Charlotte, of which the prime originals are respectively in the Royal Collection (see O. Millar, Later Georgian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, London, 1969, I, p. 95, no. 996) and in the Schloss Wilhelmshöhe, Kassel. Ramsay and his studio produced a number of versions of these state portraits for various ambassadorial and European royal collections.

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