ATTRIBUTED TO CHARLES JERVAS (DUBLIN C. 1675-1739 LONDON)

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29.11.2023 10:30UTC +01:00
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ID 1071175
Lot 180 | ATTRIBUTED TO CHARLES JERVAS (DUBLIN C. 1675-1739 LONDON)
ATTRIBUTED TO CHARLES JERVAS (DUBLIN C. 1675-1739 LONDON)

Portrait of Viscountess Blundell, née Mary Chetwynd (1680-1756), half-length, in a blue dress

oil on canvas

30 ¼ x 25 ¼ in. (77 x 64 cm.)

with identifying inscription 'Viscountess Blundell' (lower right) and inscribed 'Dahl / Pinxit.' (reverse, on the relining canvas)

in a frame of foliate carved and pierced giltwood, applied to an ebonised subframe





Provenance

(Presumably) by descent to the sitter's daughter,

Chetwynd Trumbull, née Blundell (1715-1766), and by descent to her daughter,

Mary Sandys, née Trumbull (1741-1769), and by descent to her daughter,

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 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.

ONM / 1 / 2 / 7, journal entry for a visit to Ombersley Court, 25 August 1950, Oliver Millar Archive, Paul Mellon Centre, London, p. 27.

Ombersley Court Inventory, June 1963, annotated Ombersley MS., where listed in the Store Rooms.

Ombersley Court Catalogue of Pictures, undated, Ombersley MS., p. 18, where listed in the Library.
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