Property from the collection of the late Timothy Clowes
Thomas Forster
Portrait of a cleric
Lot Closed
September 23, 03:18 PM GMT
Estimate
800 - 1,200 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the collection of the late Timothy Clowes
Thomas Forster
Fl. late 17th, early 18th century
Portrait of a cleric
Plumbago on vellum, turned wood frame;
signed and dated centre right: T. Forster / Delin / 1709
113 by 84 mm
Francis Wellesley;
sale, London, Sotheby’s, 28 June 1920, lot 346
sale, London, Sotheby’s, 28 June 1920, lot 346
C.F. Bell and R. Poole, English Seventeenth-century Portrait Drawings in Oxford Collections, Walpole Society, vol. XIV, 1926, p. 78
Together with his wife Minnie, Francis Wellesley formed an important collection of plumbago drawings in the first part of the 20th century. See: F. Wellesley, Catalogue of the Miniatures and Portraits in Plumbago or Pencil Belonging to Francis and Minnie Wellesley, London 1914.
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