Portrait of George Carnegie, Lord Rosehill, with his brother the Hon. William Carnegie, as children
Portrait of George Carnegie, Lord Rosehill, with his brother the Hon. William Carnegie, as children
 Portrait of George Carnegie, Lord Rosehill, with his brother the Hon. William Carnegie, as childrenFull-length standing in a landscape with the sea beyondSigned and dated, lower left: Edridge 1800 and inscribed on original backboard: George Lord Rosehill 9 years of age/William Hopetoun Carnegie 6 years of age/…. Rosehill Novbr 1800Pen and grey ink and grey washes over pencil29.2 by 22.2 cm., 11 ½ by 8 ¾ in. Provenance: By descent from the sitter until sold at Sotheby's, 11th November 1993, lot 61;With Agnew's London, 1994;Anonymous sale, Christie's London, 4th June 2008, lot 25 (1 of 2);By descent to the present owner Exhibited: Agnew's London, 121st Annual Exhibition of Watercolours and Drawings, 28 February-25 March 1994, no. 24The two boys, aged nine and six respectively, were the two eldest sons of Admiral William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk (1756-1831) and his wife Mary Ricketts, of Longwood, Hampshire. George Carnegie was lost at sea in 1807, off the Rodrigues Island in the Indian Ocean aged 15. His younger brother William became 8th Earl, on the death of his father and died in 1878, at the age of 84.){kind=link}
Henry Edridge, A.R.A. (1769-1821)
Portrait of George Carnegie, Lord Rosehill, with his brother the Hon. William Carnegie, as children
Full-length standing in a landscape with the sea beyond
Signed and dated, lower left: Edridge 1800 and inscribed on original backboard: George Lord Rosehill 9 years of age/William Hopetoun Carnegie 6 years of age/…. Rosehill Novbr 1800
Pen and grey ink and grey washes over pencil
29.2 by 22.2 cm., 11 ½ by 8 ¾ in.
Provenance:
By descent from the sitter until sold at Sotheby's, 11th November 1993, lot 61;
With Agnew's London, 1994;
Anonymous sale, Christie's London, 4th June 2008, lot 25 (1 of 2);
By descent to the present owner
Exhibited:
Agnew's London, 121st Annual Exhibition of Watercolours and Drawings, 28 February-25 March 1994, no. 24
The two boys, aged nine and six respectively, were the two eldest sons of Admiral William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk (1756-1831) and his wife Mary Ricketts, of Longwood, Hampshire. George Carnegie was lost at sea in 1807, off the Rodrigues Island in the Indian Ocean aged 15. His younger brother William became 8th Earl, on the death of his father and died in 1878, at the age of 84.