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Studio of Allan Ramsay (Edinburgh 1713-1784 Dover)
Lot 194

Studio of Allan Ramsay (Edinburgh 1713-1784 Dover)

Portrait of King George III (1738-1820), full-length, in robes of state, his crown on a cushion on a table beside him; and Portrait of Queen Charlotte (1744-1818), full-length, in robes of state, in front of a richly carved and gilded chair decorated with the crown, sceptres, cipher and royal supporters, her left hand resting on her crown

Closed3 December 2014

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GBP 37,500

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Studio of Allan Ramsay (Edinburgh 1713-1784 Dover)
Portrait of King George III (1738-1820), full-length, in robes of state, his crown on a cushion on a table beside him; and Portrait of Queen Charlotte (1744-1818), full-length, in robes of state, in front of a richly carved and gilded chair decorated with the crown, sceptres, cipher and royal supporters, her left hand resting on her crown
oil on canvas
97 x 63½ in. (246.5 x 161.3 cm.)
a pair

Anonymous sale [G. Oliver & Sons]; Christie's, London, 15 February 1957, lot 103 (145 gns. to the following),
Anonymous sale [V.L. Sanderson]; Christie's, London, 5 April 1957, lot 117 (100 gns. to Wiggins).

Specialist note

The present portraits are versions of Ramsay's celebrated portrait types of King George III and Queen Charlotte, of which the prime originals are respectively in the Royal Collection (see O. Millar, Later Georgian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, London, 1969, I, p. 95, no. 996); and in the Schloss Wilhelmshöhe, Kassel.