Lot 2065
ANGLO-FRENCH SCHOOL, 18th CENTURY
PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN, TRADITIONALLY IDENTIFIED AS LLOYD KENYON, 1st LORD KENYON (1732-1802)
Bust length, wearing a long wig, pastels
48.5 x 39.5cm.
Provenance: According to an inscription on the backboard, this was purchased at Sothebys in May 1919 as being by John Russell and described as a portrait of Lord Kenyon (from the collection of Major Lyon since 1894). It more probably depicts his father, also Lloyd Kenyon (1696-1773), a country gentleman and JP in Flintshire.
