Christie's: Valuable Printed Books and Manuscripts: Lot 95
SCOTT, Sir Walter (1771-1832)-- Benjamin Robert HAYDON (1786-1846). Portrait of Sir Walter Scott
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SCOTT, Sir Walter (1771-1832)-- Benjamin Robert HAYDON (1786-1846). Portrait of Sir Walter Scott in black and white chalk, lips touched with red chalk, on oatmeal paper, 200 x 152mm, framed and glazed.
Provenance. Rev. William Aldwin Soames (his sale, Foster, 14 March 1866, lot 140); possibly F.S. Child, 1932; the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his anon. sale, Christie's, 5 November 1974 (lot 111), bt Austen, 30 gns; private collection.
Listed by Francis Russell, Portraits of Sir Walter Scott: a study of romantic portraiture (1987), no.82, who notes the accounts by both Scott ('Breakfasted with Haydon and sate for my head') and Haydon for the sitting on 5 May 1828. Haydon's is more circumstantial: 'Sir Walter came to breakfast... He sat to me afterwards for an hour and 1/2, and a delightful sitting it was. i hit his expression exactly. Sir Walter Scott seemed depressed... [he] has certainly the most penetrating look I ever saw, except in Shakespeare's portraits'. Haydon still had the portrait in 1832, when he offered it to Lord Francis Egerton.
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