THOMAS LEIGH (ACTIVE 1634–1656)

Lot 17
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Lot 17 | THOMAS LEIGH (ACTIVE 1634–1656)
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£ 20 000 – 30 000
THOMAS LEIGH (ACTIVE 1634–1656)

Portrait of Chetwynd Blundell, aged 4, full-length, in a richly embroidered green gown, a dog at his side, with a pochette and a game of skittles on a stool beside him

oil on canvas

62 x 44 3⁄8 in. (157.5 x 112.7 cm.)

inscribed 'Ao. Dmi. 1637. / Æts Suæ, 4.' (upper left) and with the coat of arms of the Chetwynd family (upper right); further inscribed 'Chetwynd / by / Tho..s Leigh. / 1637.' (reverse, on the lining canvas)





Provenance

(Presumably) commissioned by a member of the Blundell family, and by descent in the family to,

Viscountess Blundell, née Mary Chetwynd (1680-1756) and by descent to her daughter,

Chetwynd Trumbull, née Blundell (1715-1766), and by descent to her daughter,

Mary Sandys, née Trumbull (1741-1769), and by descent to her daughter,

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

(Possibly) Ombersley Court Inventory, c.1750-1775, Ombersley MS, as 'A Boy with a Dog by Mittins'.

J. Grego, Inventory of Pictures: Portraits, Paintings, etc., Ombersley MS, 1905, where listed in the 'Great Dining Hall'.

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 'Dutch School', where listed in the 'Staircase Hall'.

Ombersley Court Catalogue of Pictures, undated, Ombersley MS, p. 34, where listed in the 'Main Staircase Hall'.
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