ID 1071247
Lot 97 | ENOCH SEEMAN (DANZIG C. 1694-1744 LONDON)
Estimate value
£ 30 000 – 50 000
Group portrait of Letitia, Lady Sandys, née Tipping (1699-1779) with her two eldest sons, Edwin, later 2nd Baron Sandys (1726-1797), with a cockatoo in his left hand, and Cheke Sandys (1727-1737), in brown coats and breeches with red waistcoats
oil on canvas
60 ¾ x 74 ½ in. (154.3 x 189 cm.)
in a frame of foliate carved and pierced giltwood, applied to an ebonised subframe
Provenance
(Presumably) by descent to,
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 thence by descent in the family to,
Richard Hill, 7th Baron Sandys (1931-2013), at Ombersley Court, Worcestershire.
Literature
Ombersley Court Inventory, c.1750-1775, Ombersley MS., where listed in the Salon Room.
J. Grego, Inventory of Pictures: Portraits, Paintings, etc., Ombersley MS., 1905, as ‘Kneller?’, where listed in the Grand Saloon.
ONM / 1 / 2 / 7, journal entry for a visit to Ombersley Court, 25 August 1950, Oliver Millar Archive, Paul Mellon Centre, London, pp. 26 and 27.
A. Oswald, 'Ombersley Court, Worcestershire - I', Country Life, 2 January 1953, pp. 35 and 37, visible in pls. 3 and 4, where incorrectly identified as a portrait of Lady Anne Tipping by Thomas Hudson.
Ombersley Court Inventory, June 1963, annotated Ombersley MS., as 'Thomas Hudson', where listed in the Saloon.
Ombersley Court Catalogue of Pictures, undated, Ombersley MS., p. 24, as 'Thomas Hudson', where listed in the Saloon.
| Artist: | Enoch Seeman (1694 - 1745) |
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| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Enoch Seeman (1694 - 1745) |
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| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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