Lot 258
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Circle of Gilbert Jackson

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • Gilbert Jackson
  • Portrait of Isabella Buxton (c.1627-c.1663) when a Child
  • inscribed with the identity of the sitter l.l.: Isabella Da of John/ Buxton Esq of Chaning/ Norfolk, wife of John Acton of Bramford
  • Oil on canvas, in an 18th century style carved wood frame
  • 101.5 by 78.5 cm.; 40 by 31 in.
Full length, standing, wearing a white dress with broad lace collar and cap, holding cherries

Provenance

Presumably by family descent at Bramford Hall, and thence to Shrublands through the Acton family

Catalogue Note

The sitter was the daughter of John Buxton and his wife, Margaret Pert.  In circa 1648/49 she married John Acton.