Live Auction 15497Old Masters Day Sale
English School, circa 1750
Lot 191 PROPERTY OF A LADY (LOTS 138, 181, 182, 183, 191, 200, 203 AND 207)

English School, circa 1750

Portrait of a gentleman, traditionally identified as Peter Dalison, bust-length, in a blue coat

Closed7 December 2018

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GBP 5,625

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English School, circa 1750
Portrait of a gentleman, traditionally identified as Peter Dalison, bust-length, in a blue coat
oil on canvas
23 5/8 x 19 ½ in. (60 x 49.5 cm.)
in an English 18th century carved giltwood frame

M.D.P. Dalison, and by inheritance to the father of the present owner in the 1950s.

Specialist note

According to a label on the reverse of the picture, Peter Dalison, the son of Thomas Dalison of Plaxtool, Kent (1684-1741) and Isabella Burrell (d. 1762), tragically perished in the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 while on the Grand Tour, aged just 16.