ID 1071150
Lot 208 | JAMES ROBERTS (WESTMINSTER 1753-1809)
Estimate value
£ 800 – 1 200
Portrait of Edwin Sandys (1765-1785), small full-length, in academic robes
signed, dated and inscribed 'Edwin Sandys / Esqr. / Painted by / Js: Roberts / June 1785. / Oxford.' (on the reverse of the canvas)
oil on canvas, unlined
18 ¼ x 12 in. (46 x 30.5 cm.)
Provenance
(Presumably) by descent to the sitter's sister,
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, June 1963, annotated Ombersley MS., where listed in the Great Hall.
Ombersley Court Catalogue of Pictures, undated, Ombersley MS., p. 8, where listed in the Central Hall.
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