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Important Irish Art 27th May 2015
www.adams.ie 108 Hugh Douglas Hamilton RHA (1734-1808) Viscountess LiffordOval pastel and pencil heightened with white, 23x19 cm (9x7.5”)
Inscribed on the reverse
Exhibited, “An Exhibition of 18th, 19th and 20th century Irish Painting”,
The Gorry Gallery, Nov/Dec 1997, cat. no. 11, where purchased. Illus-
trated inside front cover.
The title Viscount Lifford was created in 1781 for the 1st Baron Lifford
who was Lord Chancellor of Ireland. It is thought that this portrait is of
the wife of the second Viscount who was Dean of Armagh 1796 - 1830.
The family seat was Meenglass House, near Stranorlar in Co. Donegal.
€4,000 - €6,000