Adam de Colone fl.1622-1628

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

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Description

Adam de Colone
Portrait of Benjamin Cutler with his infant son
Inscribed u.l.: Benj Cutler, Esquire/ 1622 and also: Anno Dom 1622? Aetatis Suae 50
Oil on panel, in a carved wood frame
79 by 66 cm.; 31 by 26 in.

Half length, wearing a black doublet and fine lace collar and cuffs, the child wearing an elaborate lace cap

Literature

1914 Inventory, p.2;
Edmund Farrer, Portraits in Suffolk Houses, East, Vol.II, MSS, 1921, listed as no.26 at Broke Hall

Catalogue Note

The sitter was the son of Robert Cutler of The Chantry, Sproughton, near Ipswich, and his wife, Alice, daughter of Thomas Gardiner of Clemsford in Suffolk. In circa 1617 he married Joan, daughter of Lionel Biggs of Clemsford. The young boy is likely to be the sitter's eldest son, Benjamin, who married Jane, daughter of Thomas Bull of Hawton, Suffolk.