Lot 32: SIR JOHN BAPTIST MEDINA, 1659-1710

PORTRAIT OF JOHN FLEMMING, 6 TH EARL OF WIGTON (1673-1743)

PORTRAIT OF JOHN FLEMMING, 6^TH EARL OF WIGTON (1673-1743)

75x62cm.; 29 1/2 x24 1/2 in.

oil on canvas in a painted oval

NOTE

The sitter was the son of William Fleming, 5^th Earl of Wigton, and his wife, Henrietta, daughter of Charles Seton, 2^nd Earl of Dunfermline. He was sent to France for his education and remained a staunch Jacobite throughout his life. He married three times, firstly to Margaret, daughter of Colin Lindsay, 3^rd Earl of Balcarres. He married secondly Mary, daughter of William Keith, 8^th Earl Marischal, and married as his third wife, Eupheme, daughter of George Lockhart of Carnwath, County Lanark.