Adam's Country House Collections Day II - 10th October 2023

156 500 STEPHEN SLAUGHTER (1697-1765) Portrait of Two Gentleman, Seated at a Table, Raising a Toast; Portrait of Two Gentleman, Standing in a Library A pair, oil on canvas, 34 x 29cm each Both signed and dated, one signed, the other signed on the easel: ‘Stephen Slaughter pinxt 1746’ Provenance: George Granville Leveson-Gower, 5th Duke of Sutherland, Staffordshire; thence by descent until sold, anonymous sale. London, Christie’s 15th July 1994, lots 18 and 19; Anonymous sale, London, Christie’s, 17th May 2001, lot 59 Literature: William Laffan, Abbeyleix , Tralee 2017, p.140 with the suggestion that this a 1745 Jacobite toast. € 15,000 - 20,000