ENGLISH SCHOOL, MID-EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

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Los 129 | ENGLISH SCHOOL, MID-EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
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ENGLISH SCHOOL, MID-EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

Portrait of Lord Robert Bertie (1721-82), half-length, in armour with a red ermine-trimmed cloak, in a feigned oval; and Portrait of Lady Robert Bertie (1719-98), half-length, in a white dress, blue sash and blue ermine-trimmed robes, in a feigned oval

oil on canvas

30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm.)

with erroneous identifying inscriptions, the first 'Lord Robert Bertie / brother of / the Duke of Doncaster' (upper left); the second 'Lady Robert Bertie / Sister of Viscount Blundell' (upper left) and 'Knapton / pinxit' (reverse, on the lining canvas)

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Provenance

(Presumably) by inheritance to Lady Robert Bertie's great-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 by descent in the family to,

Richard Hill, 7th Baron Sandys (1931-2013), at Ombersley Court, Worcestershire.



Literature

J. Grego, Inventory of Pictures: Portraits, Paintings, etc., Ombersley MS., 1905, where listed in the Library and the Grand Staircase.

ONM / 1 / 2 / 7, journal entry for a visit to Ombersley Court, 25 August 1950, Oliver Millar Archive, Paul Mellon Centre, London, p. 29, as 'probably Cotes'.

Ombersley Court Inventory, June 1963, annotated Ombersley MS., as 'English School, 18th century', where listed in the Library.

Ombersley Court Catalogue of Pictures, undated, Ombersley MS., pp. 16-18, as 'Francis Cotes', where listed in the Library.
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