The first depicting Lt. Colonel Archibald McArthur, dated 1790, with remains of an old label to the back; the second depicting Admiral Lord Viscount Duncan dated 1797, with Kanter collection label and another inventory 605 together with other descriptive labels, both facing sinister, signed Tassie F, in oval ebonized mahogany frames
7 in. (17.8 cm.) x 5¹⁄₂ in. (14 cm.) (overall, the first)

Lt. Colonel McArthur, sitter: bought from Mallett, New York, 19 December 2001 (stock GS 003), $2,100
Admiral Lord Duncan, sitter: the Kanter Collection
Bought from the Mallett, New York, 19 December 2001 (GN 355), $3,160

J.M.Gray, James and William Tassie, as Biographical and Critical Sketch, Edinburgh, 1894, no. 110, pl. XIII.

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