Lot 145: ATTRIBUTED TO EDWARD HAYTLEY (ACTIVE BRITAIN, 1740- 1762) Portrait

ATTRIBUTED TO EDWARD HAYTLEY (ACTIVE BRITAIN, 1740- 1762) Portrait of David Gavin of Gavinton & his first wife, Christine, full-length, before a landscape oil on canvas 128.5 x 102.8cm (50 9/16 x 40 1/2in).

Provenance The sitter, David Gavin of Langton House, Gavinton His daughter, Mary Gavin who married John Campbell, 1st Marquis of Breadalbane, and thence by family descent to Caroline Harvey, Duchess of Buckingham, by whom bequeathed to Lt.Col The Honourable Thomas George Breadalbane Morgan-Grenville (1891-1965), in 1913, and thence by descent to the present owner David Gavin (1720-1783) acquired the estate of Langton in Berwickshire in 1758. He demolished the house and much of the original village and created a new settlement, known as Gavinstown. His first wife, Christine, died in 1767 with no issue and he remarried Elizabeth, daughter of James Maitland, 7th Earl of Lauderdale in 1770. Their eldest daughter, Mary married the Earl (later Marquis) of Breadalbane in 1793.