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Scottish School, 18th Century

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Scottish School, 18th Century
Portrait of John Keith, 3rd Earl of Kintore (c. 1699-1758), three-quarter-length, in a brown coat and a red mantle, in a landscape
with inventory number '32' (lower left)
oil on canvas
45 x 36 in. (114.3 x 91.5 cm.)
In a contemporary running pattern frame

By descent in the sitter's family to the present owner.

Specialist note

The sitter was the eldest son of William, 2nd Earl of Kintore and his wife Catherine, daughter of David Murray, 4th Viscount Stormont. In August 1729, he married Mary, daughter of the Hon. James Erskine, but died without an heir in 1758 and was succeeded by his brother, William, 4th Earl of Kintore.