William Aikman (Scottish, 1682–1731) Portrait of John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll (1680-1743)

William Aikman (Scottish, 1682–1731) Portrait of John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll (1680-1743)

Pencil inscribed with the sitter's name on upper stretcher verso, oil on canvas
50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.6cm)
Executed circa 1710-1720.
Housed in a period giltwood frame.

Provenance

By family descent to Captain Robert Archibald James Montgomerie R.N. (1855 - 1908) of Edinburgh.
To his son Captain Robert Victor Campbell Montgomerie-Charrington, 1st Life Guards, of Newport, Rhode Island.
Thence by family descent.
Private Collection, Massachusetts.

Note

John Campbell was a Knight of the Garter and senior commander of the British Army. He served first on the continent during the Nine Years War, and fought at the Battle of Kaiserwerth during the War of the Spanish Succession. Most famously, he commanded the troops that put down the 1715 Jacobite rebellion. He died in 1743 and his body still remains in Westminster Abbey, not far from Henry VIII.

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