ID 1071054 
Lot 98  | ATTRIBUTED TO SIR GODFREY KNELLER (LÜBECK 1646-1723 LONDON)
Estimate value
£ 4 000 – 6 000 
Portrait of Sir Thomas Tipping, 1st Bt. (1653-1718), three-quarter-length, in a russet jacket and cloak
oil on canvas
49 5⁄8 x 40 1⁄8 in. (126 x 102 cm.)
inscribed 'S.r Thomas Tipping Bar.t / Wheatfield Co. Oxon.' (lower left)
Provenance
(Presumably) by descent to the sitter's daughter,
Letitia Tipping (1699-1779), wife of Samuel, 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 by descent to,
Richard Hill, 7th Baron Sandys (1931-2013), Ombersley Court, Worcestershire.
Literature
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. 25.
Ombersley Court Inventory, June 1963, annotated Ombersley MS., where listed in the Alcove in the Hall.
Ombersley Court Catalogue of Pictures, undated, Ombersley MS., p. 38, where listed in the Main Staircase.
| Artist: | Godfrey Kneller (1646 - 1723) | 
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| Auction house category: | Paintings | 
| Artist: | Godfrey Kneller (1646 - 1723) | 
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| Auction house category: | Paintings | 
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