Live Auction 1546The Raglan Collection: Wellington, Waterloo and The Crimea And Works of Art from the Collection of the Marquesses of Londonderry
Irish School, 18th Century
Lot 27

Irish School, 18th Century

Portrait of William Pole of Ballyfin (d. 1781), bust-length, in a blue coat with gold trim

Closed23 May 2014

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GBP 8,125

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Irish School, 18th Century
Portrait of William Pole of Ballyfin (d. 1781), bust-length, in a blue coat with gold trim
pastel on paper
23 x 18 in. (58.4 x 45.7 cm.)

Specialist note

The sitter was godfather and distant cousin of William Wellesley, Baron Maryborough and later 3rd Earl of Mornington, to whom he bequeathed his estates. Wellesley assumed the additional surname of Pole on succeeding in 1781.