ID 1071238
Lot 14 | ANGLO-FLEMISH SCHOOL, 17TH CENTURY
Estimate value
£ 5 000 – 8 000
Portrait of a child, traditionally identified as Princess Anne, later Queen Anne (1665-1714), full-length, seated on a red cushion
oil on canvas
45 x 34 in. (104.3 x 86.3 cm.)
Provenance
Mary, Marchioness of Downshire and 1st Baroness Sandys (1764-1836), Hanover Square, by 1801, and thence by descent in the family to,
Richard Hill, 7th Baron Sandys (1931-2013), Ombersley Court, Worcestershire.
Literature
An Inventory and Valuation of the pictures at the house in Hanover Square, taken 5th November 1801 by Mr Wm Comyns, Ombersley MS., no. 57, as 'Queen Anne when a Child'.
J. Grego, Inventory of Pictures: Portraits, Paintings, etc., Ombersley MS., 1905, where listed in 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. 23, as 'Dutch and not far from Jan Mytens'.
Ombersley Court Inventory, June 1963, annotated Ombersley MS., as 'English School', where listed in the 'State Bedroom'.
Ombersley Court Catalogue of Pictures, undated, Ombersley MS, p. 48, where listed in 'The Stateroom'.
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