NATHANIEL HONE (1718 - 1784)

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€3,000 - €5,000

NATHANIEL HONE (1718 - 1784)

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Portrait of William Stewart of Wilmont, Belfast. Oil on canvas. Provenance: Harriette Henry (nee Armstrong) of 4 Eaton Rise, Ealing, Middlesex, in 1891, the great granddaughter of Mrs. Stewart (according to old label on reverse). These portraits are of members of that circle of landowners of Scottish origin who built up a prosperous linen business in the Lagan Valley. William Stewart (1735 – 1808) who built Wilmont c.1765 was a younger son of John & Jane Stewart of Ballydrain. These people built restrained and charming houses in the late 18th-century swept aside by the prosperity and poor taste of the 19th-century. Ballydrain, now the unlovely club house of the Malone Golf Club, and Wilmont in Belfast the centrepiece of the Sir Thomas and Lady Dixon Park with its renowned rose garden. Image size: 76 x 63.5 cm.; framed: 87 x 22 cm. PICTURES AND PRINTS