JOHN SMART (BRITISH, 1742/43-1811)

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JOHN SMART (BRITISH, 1742/43-1811)
Sir James Montgomery, 1st Bt. of Stanhope (1721-1803), in black coat and waistcoat, frilled white cravat, powdered hair worn en queue
signed with initials and dated 'J.S. 1779' (lower left)
on ivory
oval, 1 11/16 in. (43 mm.) high, gold frame, the glazed reverse set with oval ivory plaque decorated in hair with sitter's initials JM and dated 1779

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Sir James Montgomery, 1st Bt. was the son of William Montgomery of Magbiehill and Barbara Rutherford. He held the office of Lord Advocate of Scotland in 1766, M.P. for Peebles in 1768 and was Chief Baron of the Exchequer in Scotland between 1775 and 1781. He married Margaret Scott and they had seven children. For a portrait of their oldest son, James, later 2nd Bt., by Richard Cosway, see lot 54.