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Portrait of John, Lord Mountstuart, later 4th Earl and 1st Marquess of Bute  1763

by Jean-Etienne Liotard

Lord Bute, who commissioned this portrait as a memento of his son's Grand Tour, was so pleased with it that he paid the artist twice the agreed-upon price. Exuding the self-possessed confidence of a young aristocrat, nineteen-year-old Lord Mountstuart leans against a mantel displaying the utmost in sumptuous French attire: a fur-lined winter suit of turquoise silk, lace co...
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Courtesy of J. Paul Getty Museum