File:18th-century anonymous painter oil on canvas portrait of merchant, alderman, mayor and benefactor Robert Kitchin.jpg

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18th-century oil on canvas painting by an anonymous painter showing a half length portrait of Bristol merchant, alderman, mayor and benefactor Robert Kitchin (Robert Kytchin)

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English: 18th-century oil on canvas painting circa 102 x 83 cm by an anonymous painter (English School) showing a half length portrait of Bristol merchant, alderman, mayor and benefactor Robert Kitchin (Robert Kytchin; Robert Kitchen), perhaps taken from a older, late 16th or early 17th century posthumous painting. Gilt text on the upper left:

„Robert Kytchenn som
etyme Mayor and Al
derman of this citty of
Brystoll and a Munifecent
benifactor to ye poore
of this Citty & to other
places of this Kingdom“

In the upper right the text

„Obiit Anno etatis sum 63“

below hist monogramm RK in a white oval.
But on this painting there is a difference to all other known pictures of Robert Kitchin: See his left hand ...
This painting, with an 19th-century ebonised and

gilt moulded frame with Frost & Reed Ltd. framer’s label to verso, had been offert for an estimated price of £3000-5000; https://dominicwinter.blob.core.windows.net/main/DW_7March19_HighRes.pdf
Date circa 1750
date QS:P,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source Dominic Winters Auctioneers: Paintings, Watercolours and Prints / Antiques, Antiquities and Textiles / 7 March 2019, p. 15; https://dominicwinter.blob.core.windows.net/main/DW_7March19_HighRes.pdf
Author unnamed painter, english school, 19th-century
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  • Another copy painted in the 19th century by Joseph Manning with "little" differences ...
    Another copy painted in the 19th century by Joseph Manning with "little" differences ...

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