CIRCLE OF MICHAEL DAHL (STOCKHOLM C. 1659-1743 LONDON)

Lot 128
29.11.2023 10:30UTC +00:00
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£ 4 000
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 128 | CIRCLE OF MICHAEL DAHL (STOCKHOLM C. 1659-1743 LONDON)
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£ 4 000 – 6 000
CIRCLE OF MICHAEL DAHL (STOCKHOLM C. 1659-1743 LONDON)

Portrait of Viscountess Blundell, née Mary Chetwynd (1680-1756), three-quarter-length, seated in a blue dress, holding a sprig

oil on canvas, unlined

49 ½ x 39 ¼ in. (125.8 x 99.6 cm.)

with erroneous identifying inscription 'The Hon.ble Miss Blundell' (lower left)





Provenance

(Presumably) by inheritance to the sitter's great-granddaughter,

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

ONM / 1 / 2 / 7, journal entry for a visit to Ombersley Court, 25 August 1950, Oliver Millar Archive, Paul Mellon Centre, London, p. 31, as 'possibly Dahl'.

Ombersley Court Inventory, June 1963, annotated Ombersley MS., as 'School of Kneller', where listed in the Grand Hall.

Ombersley Court Catalogue of Pictures, undated, Ombersley MS., p. 10, as 'School of Kneller', where listed in the Central Hall.
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