Lot 91: CHARLES ROBERTSON (IRISH, C.1760-1821)

John Trant, in blue coat with black collar, white waistcoat and knotted cravat, fair hair and sideburns
A paper label on the reverse reads 'John Trant of Dover Captain 10 t h Hussars Uncle of M r s Neil Edmonstone'
oval, 2 13/16 in. (71 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame, the reverse with plaited hair

By direct family descent.

THE PROPERTY OF A FAMILY OF TITLE

The paper label on the reverse suggests that the present sitter was the brother of William Trant, father of Madalina Elinor who married Neil Benjamin Edmonstone (1813-1864) of the East India Company. Madalina and her mother sat for George Chinnery in Calcutta in 1815 (see Mildred Archer, India and British Portraiture 1770-1825, London, 1979, illustrated p. 378, pl. 285). The Edmonstone children, including Neil Benjamin, were also drawn by Chinnery (M. Archer, op. cit., p. 379, pl. 287).

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