LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

68.03 in. (172.80 cm.) (height) by 48.50 in. (123.20 cm.) (width)

Markings:

indistinctly signed and dated 'Antio Zuc... ae fecit Anno 1763' (partially strengthened, lower right)

Exhibited:

London, South Kensington, National Portraits, 1867, no. 583, as of Robert Adam.

Literature:

J. Swarbrick, Robert Adam and his Brothers, London, 1915, pp. 141-2, fig. 101, where described as of Robert Adam.J. Steegman, ‘Some English Portraits by Pompeo Batoni’, The Burlington Magazine, LXXXVII, March 1946, p. 60, no. 32, as 'Batoni'. A. Smart, 'An unknown portrait of James Adam', The Burlington Magazine, XCVI, April 1954, p. 102, as 'Batoni'.J. Fleming, 'Allan Ramsay and Robert Adam in Italy', The Conoisseur, March 1956, p. 83, fig. 9.J. Fleming, Robert Adam & his Circle, London, 1962, p. 261, pl. 88, as 'Batoni'.J. Fleming, 'Robert Adam the Grand Tourist', Cornhill Magazine, no. 1004.H. Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, London, 1978, p. 44; 3rd edition, New Haven and London, 1995, p. 46, as 'Batoni'.A.M. Clark, ed. E.P. Bowron, Pompeo Batoni, Oxford, 1985, p. 373, as 'not by Batoni'.

Provenance:

J. Lupton Lister, Deans Court, Doctors Commons, London; Christie's, London, 5 December 1863, lot 67, as 'Pompeio Battoni[sic.], Portrait of Sir William Chambers - admirably painted' (31 gns. to Anthony).Baron John Bonde (1918-2009), a descendent of the Adam family; Christie's, London, 26 June 1964, lot 106.