Robert Throckmorton (1750-1779)

Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Lucca 1708 – Rome 1787). Oil painting on canvas, Robert Throckmorton (1750-1779) by Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Lucca 1708 – Rome 1787), signed and dated on the scrolled end of the print of the Pantheon held by the sitter: P. Batoni pinxit Romæ an.1772. Inscribed top left: with the name of the sitter: ROBERT THROCKMORTON ESQR SON OF GEORGE THROCKMORTON / OF WESTON UNDERWOOD COM: BUCKS. BORN 1750. DIED 1779. A half-length portrait in green, gold braided coat holding a scroll with a drawing of the Pantheon, Rome. The painting was transferred from Weston Underwood, another Throckmorton family seat, to Coughton Court in the nineteenth century. Coughton Court, Warwickshire