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Description: | Domenico Duprà worked as a portrait painter at the court of King John V of Portugal and for the exiled Stuart Family in Rome, as well as for many British aristocrats on the Grand Tour. The sitter, James Carnegie of Boysack, was appointed advocate in Edinburgh in 1733. He was in Rome in 1739 and, in 1745, joined the Jacobites and became one of the Private Secretaries of the Prince during the uprising. He died in 1768 in exile in France. Other portraits of Scotsmen by Duprà show John Drummond, 4th Titular Duke of Perth, and William Hay of Edrington, Bellingham Boyle, and Dr. Irwin (National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh), all associated with the Jacobites in exile. These portraits have similar measurements and similar inscriptions on the reverse dating them to 1739. In three cases Dupra is named as the artist in the inscriptions. All were made for Sir James Stewart, a political economist (1712-1780), who travelled the continent from 1735-1740, was well connected to the Jacobites and went in exile after the 1745 rebellion. | Subjects: | portrait (James Carnegie of Boysack) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Duprà, Domenico (Italian artist, 1689-1770) Æ Attributed to manner of | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8796... | Go to resource |
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