FOLLOWER OF FRANS POURBUS THE YOUNGER

Lot 13
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ID 1071155
Lot 13 | FOLLOWER OF FRANS POURBUS THE YOUNGER
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FOLLOWER OF FRANS POURBUS THE YOUNGER

Portrait of Sir Roger Bertie (d. 1654), bust-length, in a white and red doublet, wearing the badge of a Knight of the Bath

oil on canvas

23 ¾ x 19 ¼ in. (60.5 x 49 cm.)

with identifying inscription 'Sr: Roger Bertie, second / sonn: to Robert: Earle of / Lindssey Lord Great / Chamberlin of :·- / -·: England :·-' (upper left)

in an eighteenth century Maratta frame





Provenance

(Presumably) by descent in the sitter's family, to Lord Robert Bertie (1721-82), and by inheritance to his wife,

Lady Robert Bertie, née The Hon. Mary Blundell (1719-98), 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. 9, as 'C. Johnson'.

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. 21.

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

Ombersley Court Catalogue of Pictures, undated, Ombersley MS, p. 18, as 'French School', where listed in 'The Library'.
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