Lot 36: Frederick Richard Say (c.1827-1860)

Portrait of Robert Robertson, 9th Laird of Auchleeks (1777-1859), in a green jacket and red waistcoat, with his wife Bridget, in a red and black dress with a green shawl, and two of their daughters, Bridget, seated in a white dress with an open book on her lap, and Amelia, in a yellow dress, in a landscape
oil on canvas
64 1/2 x 50 1/2 in. (163.8 x 128.3 cm.)

London, Royal Academy, 1836, no.83.

By descent from the sitters to David Dundas Robertson.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 18 April 1986, lot 123 (sold £9,000).
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 14 July 1989, lot 103 (sold £28,000).

Robert Robertson, born on 7 February 1777, was also 9th Laird of Auchleeks, Perthshire, and Membland Hall, Devon. He married his wife, Bridget, daughter of George Atkinson of Temple Sowerby, Westmorland, on 12 February 1816. Bridget and Amelia, the girls in the portrait, are only two of their children; in total they had five sons and six daughters. In 1836 the family appears to have been living at 18 Harley Street, London.

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.