Rouquet, Jean André Miniature portrait of a young... Lot 6445

Rouquet, Jean André Miniature portrait of a young man with a powdered wig, wearing a blue jacket over a yellow vest with a white collar and lace jabot. Enamel on copper. 3.9 x 3.5 cm (oval). In a grooved gold frame, the cover cardboard with old inscription "No. 14 / Lord John Sackville" and by a later hand "von / J. Meyer". Circa 1740. If the identification on the reverse is correct, this is Lord John Philip Sackville (1713 - 1765), British Member of Parliament for Tamworth from 1734 to 1747. He was known as a keen cricketer and notorious as a notorious rake. In 1744 he was forced to marry Lady Frances Leveson-Gower, sister of the Duchess of Bedford, after she bore him a child. When he deserted from his Foot Guards regiment in 1746, he was forced to leave the army and shortly afterwards was committed to a private lunatic asylum. He was eventually deported to Lausanne and died, mentally deranged, in Geneva at the age of 52.