Adam's AT HOME AUCTION December 15th 2019

101 276 ATTRIBUTED TO FRANCIS BINDON (1690 -1765) Portrait of Marmaduke Coghill, 3/4 length seat- ed wearing a full wig and ceremonial robes over a brown suit, his left hand resting on a ta- ble with a latter inscribed ‘ To The R. Hon Doctor Coghill Chancellour of Exchequer, Dublin 1735’ Oil on canvas, 124 x 100cm Provenance: By Descent in the Coghill family until acquired by the present vendor . This portrait was painted the year that Marmaduke Coghill was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer. A firm adherent to the ‘cas- tle’ administration he had ‘inherited’ from his father the position of Judge of the Prerogative Court and had enriched himself sufficiently to re-build Drumcondra House, probably using Edward Lovett Pearce. He had a penchant for commissioning outstanding pieces of silver from the Dublin silversmiths such as the ex- traordinary cistern in the Ulster Museum and the Monteith in Waterford. There is a monu- ment to him by Peter Scheemakers in Drum- condra Church. Francis Bindon (1690 - 1765) is the most likely artist to have painted this portrait. He would have known Coghill and painted many in this circle. He is chiefly remembered today for his portraits of Jonathan Swift. His ambitious scale of portraiture and indeed architecture is always characterised by somewhat amateur weaknesses, compensated for by the serious self-importance of his subjects, as this exam- ple exemplifies. € 3,000 - 5,000 277 A GERMAN OAK COFFER OF ARCHITECTURAL FORM, the moulded lift top above a fielded panel body with flanking fluted pilasters. 120 x 67cm € 2,000 - 3,000