Baron D’Aguilar, Merchant, Late of Broad Street Buildings, Bethnal Green, Islington, Sydenham, Twickenham, &c, &c. From Wonderful Magazine. Pub’d by R.S. Kirby, 15 Paternoster Row, Decr. 1, 1802

Estimate: $400–$600
Hammer price: $700

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author

(ANGLO-JUDAICA)

Place

London, 1802

Description

Full-length portrait of d’Aguilar, at whose feet are the skulls of dead animals. Framed

references

Rubens 28

summary

Viennese by birth, Baron Ephraim Lopes Pereira D’Aguilar (1739-1802), son of Diego Lopez Pereira, Treasurer to Queen Maria Theresa, was a famed eccentric and miser. On his estate at Islington, the animals were so undernourished the place was popularly referred to as “Starvation Farm”

4 x 7 1/2 inches

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