Master John Prideaux Basset.
A. Ramsay Pinx. J. Faber Fecit.
[n.d., c.1756.]
Fine mezzotint, 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). On 18th century watermarked paper. Thread margins.
A full length portrait of John Prideaux Basset (1740-56), dressed in Van Dyke costume, with a greyhound. He was the son of John Pendarves Basset (1713-39) of Tehidy Park, one of the richest men in Cornwall, who died before his birth. He too died young, aged sixteen while at Eton College. An elaborate funeral procession took him by foot from Slough to his family's vault at Illogan, Cornwall.
CS 26. Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection and that of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68530] £280.00
[n.d., c.1756.]
Fine mezzotint, 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). On 18th century watermarked paper. Thread margins.
A full length portrait of John Prideaux Basset (1740-56), dressed in Van Dyke costume, with a greyhound. He was the son of John Pendarves Basset (1713-39) of Tehidy Park, one of the richest men in Cornwall, who died before his birth. He too died young, aged sixteen while at Eton College. An elaborate funeral procession took him by foot from Slough to his family's vault at Illogan, Cornwall.
CS 26. Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection and that of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68530] £280.00