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Description Thomas Hudson (British 1701-1779)Portrait of Sir Watkin Williams-Wyn 3rd Baronet (1692-1749), three-quarter-lengthOil on canvas125 x 101cm (49 x 39? in.)Provenance: Sale, Christie's, London, 22 April 1983, lot 67Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn was the eldest son of Sir William Williams, 2nd Baronet, of Llanforda and Jane Thelwall. His grandfather, was Solicitor General under James II and led the prosecution of the Seven Bishops in 1688.After graduating from Jesus College, Oxford, Williams-Wynn became Member of Parliament for Denbighshire in 1716 and was an active member of the Tory Jacobite faction. The blue waistcoat worn in the present lot was symbolic of this.As a leader of the Cycle of the White Rose, a Welsh Jacobite society, he 'burnt the King's picture' during the 1722 General Election and opposed a 'loyal address' to George I following the Atterbury Plot. He also served as Mayor of Oswestry in 1728/1729 and of Chester in 1736/1737. A combination of money and connections made Williams-Wynn a formidable local political power; in 1722, nine out of eleven Parliamentary seats in North Wales returned Tory candidates. While fiercely contested, the election confirmed the dominance of Robert Walpole and the Whig party; their exclusion from government resulted in the continuing expression of Jacobite sympathies among the more extreme Tories. Williams-Wynn employed Welsh colliers to threaten Whig supporters in the 1733 Chester mayoral election but overtly 'Jacobite' displays were rare and often rooted in Tory opposition to Welsh religious Nonconformists.Through his first wife, Ann Vaughan (c. 1695-1748), Williams-Wynn acquired extensive estates in Montgomeryshire and Denbighshire and over time became the pre-eminent landowner in North Wales. In 1719, he inherited the Wynnstay estates on condition he add 'Wynn' to his name, followed by his father's title and lands on his death in 1740. When Anne died in March 1748, he married another heiress, his god-daughter Frances Shackerley (1721-1803); his son and heir, Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet (1749-1789) was born a few months before his death in a hunting accident in September 1749.
Medium Oil on canvas