CORNELIS JOHNSON (LONDON 1593-1661 UTRECHT)

Lot 189
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ID 1071239
Lot 189 | CORNELIS JOHNSON (LONDON 1593-1661 UTRECHT)
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£ 5 000 – 8 000
CORNELIS JOHNSON (LONDON 1593-1661 UTRECHT)

Portrait of a lady of the Betenson family, half-length, in a gold dress and brown silk wrap

oil on canvas

30 ½ x 24 ½ in. (77.5 x 62.2 cm.)





Provenance

(Presumably) by descent in the Betenson family to,

Albinia, Duchess of Ancaster and Kesteven, née Farrington (c.1689-1745), and by descent to her son,

Robert, Lord Bertie (1721-1782), and by inheritance to his wife,

Lady Mary Bertie (1719-1798), and by inheritance to her great-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 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. 32.

J. Grego, Inventory of Pictures: Portraits, Paintings, etc., Ombersley MS., 1905, where listed in the Great Hall.

ONM / 1 / 2 / 7, journal entry for a visit to Ombersley Court, 25 August 1950, Oliver Millar Archive, Paul Mellon Centre, London, pp. 17 and 19.

A. Oswald, 'Ombersley Court, Worcestershire - I', Country Life, 2 January 1953, p. 34, visible in pl. 2.

Ombersley Court Inventory, annotated Ombersley MS., June 1963, as 'School of Lely', where listed in the Corridor outside the Chinese Bedroom.

Ombersley Court Catalogue of Pictures, undated, Ombersley MS., p. 46, where listed in the Upper Gallery.
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