Robert Hunter, Irish, 1715/1720-c.1803
Title: Portrait of Peter La Touche of Bellevue (1733-1828)
Date: 1775
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
152 x 198 cm
Signed: lower right: R. Hunter 1775
Credit Line: Purchased, 1971
Object Number: NGI.4034
ProvenancePossibly Belview, County Wicklow, 1906, La Touche Sale; possibly Christie's, 15 November 1918, lot 17; purchased, Appleby Bros. Ltd., London, 1971
Exhibition HistoryIrish Portraits 1660-1860, National Portrait Gallery, London; Ulster Museum, Belfast, 1969-1970
Aspects of Irish Art, a Loan Exhibition; Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio, 27 January - 3 March 1974; Toledo Museum of Arts, Toledo, Ohio, 17 March - 14 April 1974; St Louis Art Museum, St Louis, Missouri, 3 May - 9 June 1974
Aspects of Irish Art, a Loan Exhibition; Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio, 27 January - 3 March 1974; Toledo Museum of Arts, Toledo, Ohio, 17 March - 14 April 1974; St Louis Art Museum, St Louis, Missouri, 3 May - 9 June 1974