Wigs on the Green has dated this piece to the 19th Century.
Looking young and dapper in the portrait, Allen Bathurst was eighteen years of age at the time. He went on to enlist in the army before being elected as an MP. He married twice and had two sons.
The portrait was rescued from a disbound scrapbook belonging to Augusta Mary and is presented in a period papier-mâché frame with a traditional acorn hanger. Labels on the reverse nae the sitter and date the portrait to August 1850.
Framed Size: 189 x 162mm
Wigs on the Green has dated this piece to the 19th Century.
Small portraiture of character & historical interest
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Watercolour Sketch of Lord Bathurst, 1850
