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Fri, Feb 5, 2016 03:00PM EST - Sat, Feb 6, 2016 03:00PM EST
Lot 464

Robert Duddingstone Herdman (1863-1922): Henry 5th Viscount Melville

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Oil on canvasboard, 1894-1905, signed with monogram lower left, titled and inscribed (in another hand) 'Painted, together with the large portrait, at Melville Castle, 1894, by R. Duddingstone Herdman (Finished for Viscount Mellville 1905)' on a label on the reverse. 12 3/4 x 8 1/2 in., 17 1/2 x 13 1/2 in. (frame).  Provenance:  Exhibited J. R. Herbert Boone Collection, (via Johns Hopkins University), Alex Cooper Auctioneers, Baltimore, 1988.  The full size version is said to be in the national Portrait Gallery, London.