Lot 17: PETER DENUNE

PORTRAIT OF CHARLES, 10TH LORD ELPHINSTONE

73x61cm.; 28 3/4 x24in.

later inscribed with the identity of the sitter and inscribed Peter Denune Pinxt 1743

oil on canvas in a painted oval

NOTE

The sitter was the second son of Charles Elphinstone and his wife Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir William Primrose. He married Clementina, the daughter and eventual sole heir of the 6^th Earl of Wigton, in 1735.