Lot 148: WILLIAM DOUGLAS (BRITISH, 1780-1832)

Archibald William, 8th Marquess of Queensberry (1818-1858) as a child, full-length, seated on a bank in loose white dress, with blue bows at shoulders and holding a blue ribbon in his right hand, wearing a lace-bordered white cap adorned with blue bow; black hat, tree and foliate background
rectangular, 5 3/16 x 4 in. (132 x 100 mm.), ormolu frame with foliate border and shell corners

Property from a European Collection

Archibald William, son of John, 7th Marquess of Queensberry (1779-1856) and his wife Sarah (d. 1864), daughter of James Sholto Douglas, was an officer in the 2nd Life Guards, Privy Councillor and Lieutenant and Sherriff of Drumfriesshire. He was killed at Kinmount by the accidental explosion of his gun. He married Caroline Margaret (d. 1904), younger daughter of General Sir William Clayton, 5th Bt., and had issue.

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