The Professional Gent

Shown in half-profile and set against a clouded blue sky backdrop with a hint of foliage, this gentleman of ruddy complexion wears a black coat with large revers over a frilled chemise and knotted cravat, his ‘physical’ wig and queue powdered. This style of wig was mostly the preserve of professional gentlemen, such as doctors, vicars and lawyers.

The navette-shaped portrait resides in a handsome gold frame with chasing around the rim and foiled blue glass on the reverse with a central aperture showing plaited brown hair surmounted with the initials TS in monogram.

The younger son of an Irish silversmith, Frederick Buck (1765-1840) was a prolific and resourceful artist working mostly in his native Cork where his sitters comprised the local gentry and the passing military. He married twice and had at least eight children.

Ivory Exemption Ref.: 62ADKAZ7