Lot 200: John Trotter (fl. 1756-1792 Dublin)

John Trotter (fl. 1756-1792 Dublin)
Portrait of The Hon. John Theophilus Rawdon-Hastings, son of the 1st Earl of Moira, small full-length, in the uniform of the 15th Regiment of Foot with a flintlock gun and two dogs at his feet, in an extensive wooded river landscape with a hilltop castle in the distance
with later identifying inscription 'JOHN THEOPHILUS RAWDON HASTINGS SON OF THE EARL OF MOIRA. Fagan, Pinxit 1776' (lower right)
oil on canvas
35 x 28 in. (88.9 x 71.1 cm.)

A. Crookshank and the Knight of Glin, Ireland's Painters, 1600-1940, New Haven and London, 2002, p. 98.
The Knight of Glin and James Peill, Irish Furniture, London, 2007, p. 220 (illustrated).

Lady Russell; Sotheby's, London, 18 November 1987, lot 49.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 25 November 1998, lot 33 (£28,000).

John Trotter (fl. 1756-1792 Dublin)
Portrait of The Hon. John Theophilus Rawdon-Hastings, son of the 1st Earl of Moira, small full-length, in the uniform of the 15th Regiment of Foot with a flintlock gun and two dogs at his feet, in an extensive wooded river landscape with a hilltop castle in the distance
with later identifying inscription 'JOHN THEOPHILUS RAWDON HASTINGS SON OF THE EARL OF MOIRA. Fagan, Pinxit 1776' (lower right)
oil on canvas
35 x 28 in. (88.9 x 71.1 cm.)