Lot 46: JEAN LAURENT MOSNIER

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
PARIS 1743 - 1808 ST. PETERSBURG
PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM PETTY, 2υND EARL OF SHELBURNE, 1υST MARQUESS OF LANSDOWNE (1737-1805), SEATED THREE QUARTER-LENGTH IN GENERAL'S UNIFORM WITH GARTER RIBBON, THE LESSER GEORGE TIED TO HIS SASH
signed and dated, lower right: J L. mosnier / f. 1791, and inscribed on a letter: To His Excellency / Lt General Baron de Schleiffen / Governor of Wesel / Sc Sc Sc / at Wesel / Lansdown
oil on canvas
101.5 by 85 cm.; 40 by 33 1/2 in.

Washington, National Portrait Gallery, Blessed are the Peace Makers, A Commemoration of the 200υth Anniversary of the Treaty of Paris, 1983, p. 30

L. B. Miller, In the Minds and Hearts of the People; Prologue to the American Revolution 1760-1774, 1974, pp. 64-75;
G. Walczak, 'Jean-Laurent Mosnier; Fame, revolution and early exile,' Apollo, September 2002, pp. 8 & 11;
J. Ingamells, Mid-Georgian Portraits, 2004, p. 309, 310

Probably commissioned by the sitter;
Fritz Jung; his sale, London, Christie's, 25th July 1930, lot 189 (bt. for 260 gns. by Lathom);
The Ehrich Sale, New York, American Art Association, 18th-19th April 1934, lot 112 (bt. by A.L. Nicholson);
his sale, London, Christie's, 21st October 1949, lot 119 (bt. for 90 gns. by Agnew's on behalf of the Marquis of Lansdowne);
his sale of works from Meikleour House, London, Christie's, 11th November 1994, lot 16 (bought back by the family)