Important British Paintings 1500-1850

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Lot 33
  • 33

Thomas Bardwell 1704-1767

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Description

  • Thomas Bardwell
  • Portraits of Philip Broke (1702-1762); and Ann Bowes, his wife

  • a pair, both inscribed u.c. with the identity of the sitters

  • both oil on canvas
both full length, standing, he wearing a brown coat, she wearing a grey dress

Provenance

By descent from the sitters to Captain Sir Philip Bowes Vere Broke (1776-1841), their grandson;
Jane Broke, his granddaughter, wife of James 4th Baron de Saumarez and thence by descent

Literature

Edmund Farrer, Portraits in East Suffolk Houses, MSS, Vol.I, 1921, pp.12-13, nos. 17 and 18

Catalogue Note

Philip Broke was the eldest son of Robert Broke and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Hewytt, 1st Bt. of Waresley, Huntingdonshire. He was descended from Sir Richard Broke, Chief Baron of the Exchequer under Henry VII, who built Broke Hall at Nacton in Suffolk in the early sixteenth century. He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge and from 1730-1734 was M.P. for Ipswich. The companion portrait is of his wife Anne, daughter of Martin Bowes of Bury St. Edmunds and his wife Elizabeth Thurland of. They married in 1732. Anne Bowes was the direct descendant of Sir Martin Bowes who was Lord Mayor of London in 1546 and M.P. for the City of London between 1540 and 1555.

Philip and Anne Bowes were painted with members of their family by Bardwell in 1740 (sold in these rooms, 12 June 2003, lot 6).