Old Masters, British & European Paintings - Day 2 - 2nd March 2022
Lot 501
Benoist Benjamin Bonvoisin (French 1788-1860)
Estimate £400 - £600 | Hammer £550
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Description
Benoist Benjamin Bonvoisin (French 1788-1860)
Portrait of Louis-Marie-Edmond Blanquart de Bailleul (1795-1868), Archbishop of Rouen
Signed Bonvoisin pt (centre right)
Oil on canvas
65 x 54cm; 25½ x 21¼in
Archbishop Blanquart de Bailleul originally worked as a lawyer, before becoming Bishop of Versailles in 1832 and Archbishop of Rouen in 1844.