John Chute (1701-1776) (after Batoni)

Johann Heinrich Müntz (Mulhouse/Mühlhausen 1727 – Kassel 1798). Oil painting on canvas, John Chute (1701-1776) (after Batoni) by Johann Heinrich Müntz (Mulhouse 1727 – Kassel 1798), inscribed in decorative oval border: JOHN CHUTE/ ESQ: OF THE VINE, IN HAMPSHIRE. MDCCLVI [1756]. A head-and-shoulders portrait as a middle-aged man, to right, in plum coloured coat, powdered hair and white stock. Chute arms of three swords at the bottom. The black and gilt frame, corresponding with others at Strawberry Hill, dates to Horace Walpole's ownership. This is a copy of a portrait in oils by Batoni which was seen by Walpole at The Vyne but is no longer there and untraced but there is a miniature, also of 1746, presumably done by Batoni after the original portrait, which differs in that in the miniature the sitter is holding a spy-glass. Vyne Estate, Hampshire (Accredited Museum)