Lot 200
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Sir Joshua Reynolds P.R.A. (Devon 1723-1792 London)
Sir Joshua Reynolds P.R.A. (Devon 1723-1792 London)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds P.R.A. (Devon 1723-1792 London)

Portrait of Robert Cunninghame Graham (1735-1797), bust-length

Details
Sir Joshua Reynolds P.R.A. (Devon 1723-1792 London)
Portrait of Robert Cunninghame Graham (1735-1797), bust-length
oil on panel
30 x 24 5/8 in. (76.3 x 63.4 cm.)
Provenance
(Presumably) Commissioned by the sitter, 1784-5, and by descent to,
Admiral Sir Angus Edward Cunninghame Graham KBE CB (1893-1981), of Gartmore and Ardoch, by 1954, and by descent.
Literature
D. Mannings and M. Postle, Sir Joshua Reynolds: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, London, 2000, p. 223, no. 755, fig. 1447.

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Lot Essay

The sitter was the son of Nicol Graham (1694/5-1775) of Gartmore, Perthshire, and Lady Margaret Cunninghame, daughter of William, 12th Earl of Glencairn. In 1752 he settled in Jamaica where he remained until 1770. In 1753 he was appointed Receiver-General for taxes. He married firstly Anne, daughter of Patrick Taylor of Jamaica in 1764. Following Anne’s death, he married secondly, in 1786 or 1787, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Buchanan Hamilton of Spital. Graham was a friend of Charles James Fox and Thomas Sheridan and became MP for Stirlingshire in 1794, a seat he held for two years. In 1796 he assumed the additional surname of Cunninghame when his cousin John Cunninghame, 15th and last Earl of Glencairn, died and Graham succeeded to the Finlaystone estates in Renfrewshire.

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