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Lot 124

ENGLISH SCHOOL, 18TH CENTURY 'Prince Charles Edward'

oil on canvas, 26cm x 21.5cm, mounted in a walnut case with herringbone crossbanded doors, brass swan-neck handle to the top, on ogee bracket feet, 49cm high x 43.5cm wide x 16.5cm deep

Provenance: Exhibited at Carlisle Museum in 1859 and at the Exhibition of Art Treasures 1857.
The Grey-Egerton Family, formerly of Oulton Hall.

Condition Report: click here
Estimate: £2,000 - £4,000
Hammer price: £9,000
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.

Note: A label verso records that in Egerton family tradition the cabinet was placed on the table after dinner and unlocked with some ceremony when the Health of Prince Charles was given. The Egerton family were warm supporters of the Stuarts. 

The work is recorded in Sir Philip de Malpas 1864 publication Descriptive Catalogue of the pictures and other works of art: at Oulton Park Cheshire, item number 35, page 29, where it is suggested: 'It may formerly have belonged to a Jacobite Club of the border counties of England and North Wales called the Cycle (still in existence as a convivial club) of which other relics are preserved at Oulton Park'.


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Some crackelure to paint surface 

Very slightly damaged to edges of canvas but not ingressing to image. 

Staining to lower margin of gilt inner slip.

Upper hinge of right hand door replaced. 

Right door with replaced vertical strip moulding. 

Left door with damage to exterior of lower front edge, patched to reverse of lower front edge. 

Water marks, veneer cracking and other wear commensurate with age and use. 

Feet reglued and repaired, front right with additional mahogany pad to underside, which the others lack and hence the piece does not sit flat. 

Front left foot with a section  missing. 

Back bears a variety of labels from previous exhibitions. 

Please see additional photos. 

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