ATTRIBUTED TO HENRY WYATT (THICKBROOM, STAFFORDSHIRE 1794-1840 PRESWICH, NEAR MANCHESTER), AFTER SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, P.R.A.
Portrait of Frederick Augustus (1763-1827), Duke of York and Albany, half-length, wearing the Order of the Garter
oil on board
12 x 9¹⁄₂ in. (30.4 x 24.1 cm.)

J. Kemble (according to an old label on the reverse of the panel), as Sir Thomas Lawrence.
with French Gallery, London, August 1895, as Sir Thomas Lawrence.
Charles E. Dunlap (1888-1966), New York, his sale; Parke-Bernet, New York, 13 April 1963, lot 110, as Sir Thomas Lawrence,
Acquired by Russell Barnett Aitken (1910-2002) and Annie Laurie Crawford, later Aitken (1900-1984) from the above.

The sitter was the second son of King George III and Queen Charlotte, and had a distinguished career in the British Army. This portrait is a copy after a painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1822 and engraved by George Thomas Doo in 1824. The prime version of Lawrence's portrait is probably that which possibly descended from the sitter's brother Ernest Augustus (1771-1851), Duke of Cumberland, later King of Hanover, and which was most recently sold at Christie's, London, 6 July 2007, lot 209. Another work with similar dimensions to the present picture is in the Wellington Collection at Apsley House, London (WM 1472), and features an inscription on the reverse, 'painted by H. Wyatt, 78 Newman St.'.