Artist & Diplomat.- Porter (Sir Robert Ker, Scottish artist, traveller and diplomat, 1777-1842) Collection of bills and billheads from various tradesmen, including booksellers, boots, fortified wines etc., together c. 45 bills bound together, folds, browned, bound in orange Middle Hill boards, covers working loose, slightly marked and soiled, [Thomas Phillipps collection], v.s., v.d., 1813-37.
⁂ Porter studied painting under Benjamin West at Somerset House; became a captain in the Westminster militia (1803-04); appointed historical painter to the Russian Tsar (1804) and in 1811 married Mary von Scherbatoff, a Russian princess and cousin of Alexei Nikolaevic Olenin, President of the Academy of Fine Arts.
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