Lot 25: LOUIS ROLLAND TRINQUESSE | Portrait of Charles Grant, Vicomte de Vaux, in uniform as a Lieutenant Colonel of the Garde du Roi, attended by his groom with their horses, a fortress beyond

oil on canvas

289.3 cm by 206.4 cm

oil on canvas

Sir W. Fraser, The Chiefs of Grant, Edinburgh 1883, vol. I, p. 536, no. 68, vol. II, pp. 541, 544, and 546–50;
K. Retford, 'The small Domestic & conversation style: David Allan and Scottish Portraiture in the Late Eighteenth Century', in Visual Culture in Britain, vol. 15, no. 1, London 2014, pp.13–15, fig. 5.

Painted for presentation by the sitter to Sir James Grant of Grant, 8th Bt. (1738-1811), in 1781–82;
Thence by descent at Castle Grant, Aberdeenshire, and Cullen House, Banffshire, through his sons, Lewis Alexander, 5th Earl of Seafield and Francis William, 6th Earl of Seafield, to Ian, 13th Earl of Seafield;
By whom sold, on the premises of Cullen House, Christie's, 23 September 1974, lot 530, for 20,000 Guineas (as Jean Baptiste Marie Pierre);
Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Trust'), London, Christie's, 6 July 2006, lot 61.