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Lot 519

Group of Five Portraits of Members of the ?Kit Kat Club.?

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Faber, John (after G. Kneller). Group of Five Portraits of Members of the ?Kit Kat Club.? Circa 1732/34. Half-length mezzotint portraits of the Whig grandees of the Protestant Ascendancy after the painter, G. Kneller. Sitters include Richard Boyle (Earl of Burlington), John Dormer, Charles Howard (Earl of Carlisle), Charles Dartiquenave, and William Pulteney (engraved by J. Simon). Approx. 18 ? x 12?. Margins lightly chipped with few closed tears; some staining and toning; images clean.