ENGLISH SCHOOL, 1571

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£ 6 000
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29.11.2023 10:30UTC +01:00
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ID 1071127
Lot 16 | ENGLISH SCHOOL, 1571
ENGLISH SCHOOL, 1571

Portrait of Cicely Sandys, née Wilford (d. 1611), three-quarter-length, seated, in a black dress and hood, holding a page in a book

oil on panel

30 1⁄8 x 23 ½ in. (76.5 x 59.5 cm.)

inscribed 'ÆTATIS SVÆ 36 / AN.O DOM. / 1571' (upper right)





Provenance

(Presumably) by descent in the Sandys family to,

Samuel Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys (1695-1770), and by descent to his son,

Edwin Sandys, 2nd Baron Sandys (1726-1797), and by inheritance to his niece,

Mary Sandys, 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

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. 17.

Ombersley Court Inventory, June 1963, annotated Ombersley MS, as 'Early English School', where listed in the 'Library'.

Ombersley Court Catalogue of Pictures, undated, Ombersley MS, p. 38, as 'Early English School', where listed in the 'Library'.
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