Live Auction 6025Old Masters & 19th Century Art
Sir William Beechey, R.A. (Burford 1753-1839 Hampstead)
Lot 49 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE JOHN APPLEBY (LOTS 4, 8, 35, 43, 47, 49, 93, 182, 184, 196, 205 & 206)

Sir William Beechey, R.A. (Burford 1753-1839 Hampstead)

Portrait of Lieutenant Paul Sandby (1765-1793), aged 25, small half-length, in a green coat, buff waistcoat and white stock

Closed13 April 2011

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GBP 2,000

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Sir William Beechey, R.A. (Burford 1753-1839 Hampstead)
Portrait of Lieutenant Paul Sandby (1765-1793), aged 25, small half-length, in a green coat, buff waistcoat and white stock
inscribed 'Paul Sandby AE/st 25 Lieut 21st. Regt Foot Sr Wm. Beechey Pinxt 1790' (on the canvas relining, presumably transcribed from the original canvas)
oil on canvas, framed as oval
12 x 10 in. (30.4 x 25.4 cm.)

Specialist note

The sitter was the eldest son of the watercolourist Paul Sandby, R.A. (1731-1809) and Anne Stogden (?-1797). This portrait, dated 1790, was painted three years before Sandby died in Barbados, aged 28.