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Lot description
FRANCIS ALLEYNE (Active 1774-1790) A PORTRAIT OF THE REVEREND JOHN MUTTLEBURY IN FULL COURT DRESS Signed au verso on the stretcher. Oil on canvas. 37cm x 29cm oval Francis Alleyne was active in that raffish area of London between Soho and Covent Garden, Compton Street, between 1774 and 1790, where so many painters, gilders and carvers had their workshops. He specialised in small three-quarter length portraits, in the manner of Francis Wheatley R.A. , somewhere in size between a miniature and life size, which he exhibited in London. According to an old label on the reverse of this unlined canvas, the sitter, the Rev. John Muttlebury, was brought up with the children of George III. He broke his arm, whilst playing with them at St. Jamess Palace and was, therefore, educated by the King and given the living in Broad Windsor.