Lot 27: John Trotter , fl.1756-1792 Portrait of an officer oil on canvas, held in a British Regency gilded frame

full-length standing, wearing military uniform, in a landscape looking at a monument oil on canvas, held in a British Regency gilded frame

measurements note 97.5 by 123 cm., 38 1/2 by 48 1/2 in.

C.I. Conway, by descent to;
Mrs. Joan Conway, Turville Court, recorded as by 'Zoffany';
Her sale, Sotheby's London, 22nd March 2000, lot 84, (bt. by the present owner for £98,000)

THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
John Trotter was a successful Irish born portrait painter who studied at the Dublin Society's Schools from circa 1756 'where his genius was in admiration and he made drawings, unrivalled by any master before or since' (see Hibernian Journal, 1800). He subsequently studied in Rome for 16 years between c.1759 and 1773, and on his return married Mary Anne Hunter, the daughter of the pre-eminent Dublin portraitist Robert Hunter, in 1774. Trotter had a successful practice as a portrait painter in Dublin, first in Stafford Street and then in Jervis Street and Britain Street, often working in partnership with his wife, Mary Anne, who was also an artist. The present portrait can be compared with those of John Rawdon-Hastings and his wife Lady Anne Rawdon, sold at in these rooms on 10υth July 1985.