Live Auction 7821The Barratt Collection - from Crowe Hall, Bath
Allan Ramsay, R.A. (Edinburgh 1713-1784)
Lot 265

Allan Ramsay, R.A. (Edinburgh 1713-1784)

Portrait of Richard Powney, D.C.L (b. c.1702), half-length, in a brown coat, gold-embroidered waistcoat and white stock, with a tricorne hat under his arm, in a sculpted cartouche

Closed16 December 2010

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Allan Ramsay, R.A. (Edinburgh 1713-1784)
Portrait of Richard Powney, D.C.L (b. c.1702), half-length, in a brown coat, gold-embroidered waistcoat and white stock, with a tricorne hat under his arm, in a sculpted cartouche
oil on canvas
30 1/8 x 25 1/8 in. (76.5 x 63.7 cm.)
in a George II carved giltwood frame, circa 1750, carved with foliage and with rosette centred cartouches

By descent in the sitter's family to L.P. Ebden.
Anonymous sale [Mrs M. Mellon], Christie's London, 7 March 1958, lot 176 (45gns. to Sir Sydney Barratt).
Installed by Sir Sydney Barratt at Summerhill, Staffordshire, and later at Crowe Hall, Bath, 1961 and by descent.

Specialist note

A younger son of John Powney (1704), of Old Windsor, Berkshire, Richard Powney matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford, in 1719. He was subsequently at All Souls, becoming a Bachelor of Civil Law in 1726 and a Doctor in 1731. He is known to have been an editor at the Clarendon Press.