ID 1071172
Lot 127 | ATTRIBUTED TO CHARLES JERVAS (DUBLIN C. 1675-1739 LONDON)
Valeur estimée
£ 6 000 – 9 000
Portrait of Montague Blundell, 1st Viscount Blundell (1689-1756), three-quarter-length, in a blue coat and waistcoat with a white shirt and a tricorne hat tucked under his arm
oil on canvas, unlined
49 3⁄8 x 39 in. (125.5 x 99.1 cm.)
with identifying inscription 'The Viscount Blundell' (lower left)
Provenance
(Presumably) by inheritance to the sitter's great-granddaughter,
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
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, p. 31, as 'possibly Dahl'.
Ombersley Court Inventory, June 1963, annotated Ombersley MS., as 'School of Kneller', where listed in the Grand Hall.
Ombersley Court Catalogue of Pictures, undated, Ombersley MS., p. 8, as 'Kneller', where listed in the Central Hall.
| Artiste: | Charles Gervas (1675 - 1739) |
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| Artiste: | Charles Gervas (1675 - 1739) |
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