Pierre Subleyras
(Saint-Gilles-du-Gard 1699 – Rome 1749)

Portrait of John Ross Mackie, sold to a private collector in 2016

Provenance :
Colonel Ralph Hope Vere, 1887-1959, member of a famous family from the Lanarkshire (Blackwood), Scotland;
His sale, London, Christie’s, 21 december 1928, lot 170 « Rigaud, Portrait of the Right Hon. John Ross Mackie, Secretary to John, Third Earl of Bute, in red cloak, 32 in. by 24 in »
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 16 mai 1952, lot 25, sold to Wallraf;
Wildenstein, Londres;
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 12 december 1990, lot 107 for £20,000;
George Encil, Londres;
His posthumous sale, London, Sotheby's, 17 december 1998, lot 202 ;
Sotheby’s, London, 30 april 2014, lot 821, 21250£.

Exhibition :
London, Wildenstein, Portraits of 15th to 19th Century, July-August 1963, no. 20, comme Nattier (no indication of provenance)

Litterature :
V. Prat, in Experience and Adventures of a Collector, Paris 1989, p. 178, comme Nattier. The catalogue specifies the provenance : « Ancienne collection Hope Vere (according to the Wildenstein documentation) ».

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