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: K1020

: Fine Art

: drawing/watercolour

: Count de Beaujolais

: SHARPLES, James Senior

: a framed colour drawing on grey paper, showing: a half-length portrait of Louis Charles Alphonse Léodgard d'Orléans, Count of Beaujolais (1779-1808); he was the third and youngest brother of Louis Phillipe (1773-1850), King of France from 1830 to 1848, and the second brother was Louis Antoine Phillipe, the Duke of Montpensier (1775-1807); for James Sharples Senior portraits of the sitter's brothers - see K1017 & K1019; for a portrait of the sitter, drawn by Ellen Sharples - see Mb801.066

: [Book] Quick, Richard. 1910. Catalogue of the Sharples Collection of Pastel Portraits and Oil Paintings. 1. 32.

: [Book] Knox, Katharine M. 1930. The Sharples: their Portraits of George Washington and his Contemporaries. 1. 134.

: Purchased, 1931