Property of a gentleman - Nathaniel Hone RA (1718-1784) - PO...

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£2,000 - £3,000

Property of a gentleman - Nathaniel Hone RA (1718-1784) - PORTRAIT OF THE REVEREND DR. WILLIAM SCLATER (1709-1778) - oil on canvas, 30.5 by 25.5ins. (77.5 by 64.8cms.), in gilt frame. Footnote - William Sclater was born at Loughton, Essex and was educated at Winchester, where he was a scholar, and Oxford. He succeeded his father as Rector of Loughton in 1735, a position he held until his death. In 1750 he became lecturer at Christ Church, Newgate Street, London, and in 1769 was appointed as Chaplain to the Lord Mayor, William Beckford, at whose marriage in 1756 he had officiated. In 1771 he was selected by the Grocer's Company to become Rector of the famous City Church of St. Mary-le-Bow in Cheapside. St. Mary-le-Bow ranked first after St. Paul's Cathedral of all the London churches, and it was established in the ecclesiastical Court of Arches which held jurisdiction over the diocese of Canterbury. A mezzotint engraving of this portrait was made by John Raphael Smith in 1777. Provenance - formerly in the collection of Lord Basing.