ID 1071169
Lot 191 | BENJAMIN WEST (SPRINGFIELD 1738-1820 LONDON)
Estimate value
£ 10 000 – 15 000
Portrait of Edwin, 2nd Baron Sandys (1726-1797), half-length, in a red waistcoat and jacket
oil on canvas, unlined
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm.)
Provenance
(Presumably) by descent to the sitter's 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
J. Grego, Inventory of Pictures: Portraits, Paintings, etc., Ombersley MS., 1905, where listed in the Library.
Ombersley Court Inventory, June 1963, annotated Ombersley MS., as 'F. Cotes', where listed in the Library.
Ombersley Court Catalogue of Pictures, undated, Ombersley MS., p. 16, as 'Francis Cotes', where listed in the Library.
| Artist: | Benjamin West (1738 - 1820) |
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| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Benjamin West (1738 - 1820) |
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| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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