Lot 576
CIRCLE OF JOHN ASTLEY (1724-1787)
PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN
Half length, seated, wearing a dark blue/green coat, holding a book of Edward Young's verse, oil on canvas
74.5 x 62cm.
Provenance: Sybil Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda (1857-1941) of Llanwern, Monmouthshire; her daughter, Margaret Haig Mackworth, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda (1883-1958), the title inherited by special remainder; by whom given to the vendor's family
* Four lines from Young's `The Complaint: Or, Night-thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality` can just be discerned: `One eye on Death/ and one full fix'd on Heav'n/Becomes a mortal/and immortal man..`
