Henry Lapostre, (1672-1749) ?

attributed to Balthasar Denner (Althona 1685 – Rostock 1749). Oil painting on copper, ?Henry Lapostre, (1672-1749) attributed to Balthasar Denner (1685-1749). Head and shoulders portrait of a mature gentleman, turned to the right, gazing at the spectator, in a powdered wig, wearing a brown coat with gilt buttons and a linen stock. Henry Lapostre was a rich Huguenot. Both Lapostre and Sir John Brownlow, Viscount Tyrconnel (1690-1754) were Common Councilmen of the Georgia Society, whose meeting were regularly reported by the first President of the Society, Lord Egmont, in his Diaries. A Descriptive Catalogue of a Collection of Pictures....belonging to [Sir Abraham Hume], 1824, p.34, no.110: Portrait of Monsieur L'Apotre. "Denner [dimensions omitted] was paid Fifty Guineas for this picture by the family, a large price in the beginning of the last century. Nothing can exceed the scrupulous attention he bestowed on each part of individual nature" There is no known connection with the Humes. Denner worked in England in 1721-7. Belton House, Lincolnshire (Accredited Museum)