English School, circa 1700
Portrait of a young Boy, half-length, in a pale blue Coat
inscribed on an old label attached to the backboard 'The Young Pretender/Prince Charlie/Painted in Rome,/Genoa/to Dr. Wakeman. Physician/to Chas II a Jacobite=/From Jude Wakeman Lon[don]'; pastel, in a feigned oval
11 1/8 x 9 1/8in. (282 x 233mm.)
In an English mid-17th Century carved and gilded frame
来源
Jude Wakeman.
Dr. Wakeman.
With Pawsey & Payne, November 1928.
J. Thursby-Pelham.
Mrs Guy Argles and by descent.
拍品专文
Though the label suggests that this is a portrait of Prince Charles Edward, the Young Pretender (1720-1788), the work seems to date from the late 17th Century. Neither artist nor sitter can be identified.