ID 1071080
Los 55 | ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS GIBSON (LONDON C. 1680-1751)
Schätzwert
£ 7 000 – 10 000
Portrait of Admiral Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford (1652-1727), full-length, in peerage robes, with drapery and architecture beyond
oil on canvas
86 ¾ x 53 ¾ in. (220.4 x 136.4 cm.)
with identifying inscription 'The Rt Honble Edward Russell / Earl of Orford' (lower right)
in a frame of foliate carved and pierced giltwood, applied to an ebonised subframe
Provenance
By descent to the sitter's great-niece, Letitia Tipping (1699-1779), wife of Samuel Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys (1695-1770), and by descent to their son,
Edwin Sandys, 2nd Baron Sandys (1726-1797), and by inheritance to his niece,
Mary, Marchioness of Downshire and 1st Baroness Sandys (1764-1836), and by descent to her second son,
Lieutenant-General Arthur Hill, 2nd Baron Sandys (1792-1860), and by inheritance to his younger brother,
Arthur Marcus Sandys, 3rd Baron Sandys (1798-1863), and thence by descent in the family to,
Richard Hill, 7th Baron Sandys (1931-2013), at Ombersley Court, Worcestershire.
Literature
Ombersley Court Inventory, c.1750-1775, Ombersley MS., where listed in the Salon Room.
J. Grego, Inventory of Pictures: Portraits, Paintings, etc., Ombersley MS., 1905, as ‘Kneller?’, where listed in the Grand Saloon.
ONM / 1 / 2 / 7, journal entry for a visit to Ombersley Court, 25 August 1950 and 26 May 1996, Oliver Millar Archive, Paul Mellon Centre, London, pp. 26 and 27, as 'conceivably by Murray', and 'could be worked up from a Gibson head'.
A. Oswald, 'Ombersley Court, Worcestershire - I', Country Life, 2 January 1953, p. 37.
Ombersley Court Inventory, June 1963, annotated Ombersley MS., as 'School of Kneller', where listed in the Staircase Hall.
Ombersley Court Catalogue of Pictures, undated, Ombersley MS., p. 22, as 'Sir Godfrey Kneller / Gibson', where listed in the Saloon.
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