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Description Andrea Soldi
Florence c.1703 - 1771 London
Portrait of William Western Hugessen (1736-64)
oil on canvas
122 x 89.4 cm.
Condition Report The canvas is lined, and the paint surface is slightly dirty with a slightly discoloured varnish. There are a few small spots of discoloured retouching scattered in the background, as well as retouching to two small repaired damages to the left of the sitter's face (the largest approx. 4 x 5cm). There are a handful of pin-prick paint losses including one in between the sitter's torso and arm on the right, and one in his jacket by the second lowest button. Inspection under ultraviolet light reveals the thick and milky varnish which impedes visibility and reveals nothing further than what is already visible to the naked eye.
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Provenance By descent to the?sitter's?daughter, Mary Western Hugessen (d. 1784) and her husband Sir Edward Knatchbull, 8th Bt. (1758-1819).
Notes William Western Hugessen was the son of William Hugessen (1691-1753) and his wife Dorothy Tyssen (1701-49) whom he married on 31st October 1734. He lived at Provender House in Norton, a medieval house built in 1342 for Lucas of Vienne, which his ancestor James Hugessen had bought in 1633. William married Thomazine Honywood, daughter of Sir John Honywood, Bt. of Evington, M.P. for Canterbury and member of an old Kent family. His eldest daughter Dorothy married Sir Joseph Banks. As she died without issue, the Provender estate passed to the issue of William Hugessen's other daughter Mary and her husband Sir Edward Knatchbull, 8th Bt. (d. 1819) (see lot?170).