Adam's HOMAN POTTERTON A LIFETIME OF COLLECTING 7th September 2021

94 90 ATTRIBUTED TO CHARLES JERVAS (1675-1739) Portrait of Captain Smith, in Armour Oil on canvas, 76 x 54cm (30 x 21.2”) € 5,000 - 8,000 Born in Clonlisk, Co. Offaly around 1675, the son of John Jervas and Elizabeth, daugh- ter of Captain John Baldwin of Shinrone Castle, High Sheriff of County Offaly. Jervas studied in London as an assistant under Sir Godfrey Kneller between 1694 and 1695. Strickland notes that after selling a series of small copies of the Raphael Cartoons c.1698 to Dr. George Clarke of All Souls College, Oxford, the following year he trav- elled to Paris and Rome remaining there for most of the decade before returning to London in 1709 where he developed a successful practice as a portrait painter. About 1715 he paid a visit to Ireland and remained there for a year or so. During this time he painted a number of portraits, including Jonathan Swift. Painting portraits of the city’s intellectuals, Charles Jervas became a popular artist often referred to in the works of literary figures of the period. With his growing reputation, Jervas succeeded Kneller as Principal Painter in Ordinary to King George I in 1723, and continued to live in London until his death in 1739.