Circle of Allan Ramsay (Edinburgh 1713-1784 Dover)

Portrait of Nicholas Hardinge, M.P. (1699-1758), three-quarter-length, in a black mantle, at his desk, a quill in his right hand

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Circle of Allan Ramsay (Edinburgh 1713-1784 Dover)
Portrait of Nicholas Hardinge, M.P. (1699-1758), three-quarter-length, in a black mantle, at his desk, a quill in his right hand
oil on canvas
50¼ x 40 1/8 in. (127.6 x 102 cm.)

来源

The Property of a Descendant of James Thursby Pelham; Christie's, London, 7 December 2007, lot 162 (£23,300).

出版

A. Smart, Allan Ramsay: A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, J. Ingamells, ed., New Haven and London, 1999, p. 209, no. 644 (under 'doubtful attributions', but only Meyer engraving recorded, original picture seemingly unknown).

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H. Meyer (in reduced format).

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拍品专文

The sitter, a politician and Latin poet, was the eldest son of Gideon Hardinge (d. 1712), vicar of Kingston, and Mary Westbrooke. He studied Classics at King's College, Cambridge, before pursuing a career in Law. Called to the bar in 1725, Hardinge was appointed Chief Clerk to the House of Commons in 1731, and later Joint Secretary of the Treasury. In 1738, Hardinge married Jane, daughter of Sir John Pratt, the Lord Chief Justice, with whom he had nine sons and three daughters. Hardinge went on to become a Member of Parliament for the borough of Eye, Suffolk between 1748 and 1758. Throughout his political career, he maintained his academic interest in the Classics; a collection of Latin verses he had composed were published posthumously by his eldest son, the politician and barrister George Hardinge, in 1780.