Lady Sarah Elizabeth and The Hon. Jeffrey Amherst
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Fagan, Robert (English painter, archaeologist, and art dealer of Irish origin, 1761-1816, active in Italy)
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National Gallery of Ireland
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Figgis, Nicola and Brendan Rooney. 'Irish Paintings in the National Gallery of Ireland', 2001, Dublin, pgs 138-143
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Robert Fagan (1761-1816) Brought up in London and admitted to the Royal Academy in 1781. Established himself as a portraitist of fashionable grand tourists and a dealer in art and antiquities in Italy. The two sitters in this painting were the children of William Pitt Amherst, British Ambassador in Palermo (1773-1857) and Sarah Archer (1762-1838). There is a faint inscription on the lower right hand corner of the canvas, probably not contemporary: 'Painted by /Robert Fagan /H B Mys [His Britannic Majesty's] Consul gen for Sicily.../1811'
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Publisher: National Gallery of Ireland
Type of material: Image