Live Auction 17081Old Master and British Drawings and Watercolours Including Works from the Collection of Jean Bonna
Hugh Douglas Hamilton, R.H.A. (Dublin 1739-1808)
Lot 160 THE ROSS COLLECTION FROM KNOCKMORE, ENNISKERRY, WICKLOW (lots 157-193)

Hugh Douglas Hamilton, R.H.A. (Dublin 1739-1808)

Portrait of Robert Cunninghame of Mount Kennedy, Baron Rossmore, bust-length; and Alexander Pope (Cork 1763-1835 London) Portrait of Anne Gordon, bust-length

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Hugh Douglas Hamilton, R.H.A. (Dublin 1739-1808)
Portrait of Robert Cunninghame of Mount Kennedy, Baron Rossmore, bust-length; and Alexander Pope (Cork 1763-1835 London) Portrait of Anne Gordon, bust-length
pastel
9 ½ x 7 ½ in. (24.2 x 19 cm.), oval
(2)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 18 November 1975, lot 48, where purchased for the present collection.

Specialist note

Robert Cunninghame of Mount Kennedy, Baron Rossmore (1726–1801), was a colonel in the 5th Royal Irish Dragoons. His sister, Anne, married Robert Gordon, (c.1720–1784) of New Grove, County Cork, who was commissioner general.
We are grateful to Neil Jeffares for his help in preparing this catalogue entry, and for including these drawings in the next updated of his Dictionary of pastellists.