Important Irish Art
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113 Hugh Douglas Hamilton RHA (1739-1808)
Portrait of General George Robert Gordon of New Grove, Co. Cork, in semi-profile wearing
military uniform
Coloured chalks over pencil, oval, 24 x 19cm (9½ x 7½”)
With mss. label verso identifying the subject signed “A. Vicars, Ulster”
Provenance: Mount Kennedy, and by descent in the family of Mount Kennedy
Robert Gordon of New Grove, Co Cork, Surveyor General of Munster, later Commissary General of
Ireland. Married Anne (d.1786) sister of Robert Cuninghame, 1st Lord Rossmore. He died 1778.
€1,000 - 1,500
