The Honourable Francis Charteris Esqr.
J. Reynolds pinxt. Rd. Houston fecit.
[n.d. c.1757.]
Mezzotint. 330 x 228mm (13 x 9"), with wide margins.
A half-length portrait of Scottish landowner Francis Wemyss Charteris (1723-1808), second son of James, 5th Earl of Wemyss. His elder brother David, Lord Elcho, should have become 6th Earl in 1756, but had been attainted for his part in the Jacobite Rising of 1745. On David's death in 1787, without a legitimate heir, Francis claimed the title of 7th Earl of Wemyss, but it was not until 1826 that his grandson obtained a reversal of the attainder.
Hamilton: p.17, ii. CS: 27, ii.
[Ref: 24767] £140.00
[n.d. c.1757.]
Mezzotint. 330 x 228mm (13 x 9"), with wide margins.
A half-length portrait of Scottish landowner Francis Wemyss Charteris (1723-1808), second son of James, 5th Earl of Wemyss. His elder brother David, Lord Elcho, should have become 6th Earl in 1756, but had been attainted for his part in the Jacobite Rising of 1745. On David's death in 1787, without a legitimate heir, Francis claimed the title of 7th Earl of Wemyss, but it was not until 1826 that his grandson obtained a reversal of the attainder.
Hamilton: p.17, ii. CS: 27, ii.
[Ref: 24767] £140.00