Live Auction 6337Stephane Boudin at 5 Belgrave Square, Les Objets de l'Empire & Mount Kennedy, Ireland. Three Private Collections
SIR WILLIAM CHARLES ROSS, R.A. (BRITISH, 1794-1860)
Lot 299

SIR WILLIAM CHARLES ROSS, R.A. (BRITISH, 1794-1860)

Closed16 March 2012

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GBP 3,250

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SIR WILLIAM CHARLES ROSS, R.A. (BRITISH, 1794-1860)
Francis Jack Needham, Viscount Newry (1815-1851), in black coat
signed and dated in pen on the backing card '1842 Painted by W.C. Ross A.R.A. miniature Painter to The Queen a. a. Newry', and inscribed in pencil in another hand 'Lord Newry'
on ivory
oval, 3 5/8 in. (92 mm.) high, rectangular brown leather travelling case, the interior cover centred with gilt-metal plaque engraved 'Francis Jack Viscount Newry & Merne: MP b. 2 Feb.1815: m. 29 July 1839. Anne Amelia eldest daughter of General The Hon. Sir Charles Colville G.C.B. d.v.p. 6. May 1851.'

Specialist note

Francis Jack Needham, Viscount Newry, was the eldest son of Francis Needham, 2nd Earl of Kilmorey and his wife Jane Gun-Cuninghame. He served as MP for Newry and Mourne, Northern Ireland from 1841 until his death in 1851. He married, in 1839, Anne Amelia Colville, daughter of General the Hon. Sir Charles Colville.