JOHN RILEY (LONDON 1646-1691) AND JOHN CLOSTERMAN (OSNABRÜCK 1660-1711 LONDON)

Lot 43
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Lot 43 | JOHN RILEY (LONDON 1646-1691) AND JOHN CLOSTERMAN (OSNABRÜCK 1660-1711 LONDON)
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£ 15 000 – 25 000
JOHN RILEY (LONDON 1646-1691) AND JOHN CLOSTERMAN (OSNABRÜCK 1660-1711 LONDON)

Portrait of Colonel Thomas Cheke of Pyrgo Park, Essex (1628-1688), Lieutenant of the Tower of London, full-length, in armour with a red sash, the Tower beyond

oil on canvas

85 ½ x 54 in. (217.2 x 137.2 cm.)

inscribed 'Thomas Cheeke / apoynted Leif.t / of the Tower' (centre left, on the white paper)

in a frame of foliate carved and pierced giltwood, applied to an ebonised subframe





Provenance

(Presumably) by descent to the sitter's daughter,

Anne Tipping, née Cheke (1678-1728), and by descent to her daughter,

Letitia Tipping (1699-1779), wife of Samuel Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys (1695-1770), and by descent to their son,

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 by descent to,

Richard Hill, 7th Baron Sandys (1931-2013), Ombersley Court, Worcestershire.



Literature

Ombersley Court Inventory, c.1750-1775, Ombersley MS., where listed in the Salon Room.

T.R. Nash, Collections for the History of Worcestershire, London, 1781-2, II, p. 224.

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, p. 27.

Ombersley Court Inventory, June 1963, annotated Ombersley MS., as 'Michael Dahl', where listed in the Saloon.

Ombersley Court Catalogue of Pictures, undated, Ombersley MS., p. 24, where listed in the Saloon.
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