a portrait of a young gentleman catalogued as ‘attributed to Allan Ramsay’ - £13,300 at Wotton Auction Rooms.
Found in the garden room of a local property among a stack of other pictures, this unsigned oil on canvas had a distinct resemblance to portraits by Allan Ramsay (1713-84).
It was offered on April 20 at Wotton Auction Rooms (18% buyer’s premium) in Gloucestershire. Features such as the curls of the sitter’s hair and the meaningful sideways glance were not unlike those found in other works by the Scottish artist (including a few self-portraits). It was thought this could be a preliminary study for a larger work from c.1760 and so was catalogued as ‘attributed to Allan Ramsay’ and offered with a £3000-5000 estimate.
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