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Attributed to Thomas Murray 1663-1734
Estimate
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Description
- Thomas Murray
- Portrait of Dr Thomas Hewett
- inscribed u.r. with the identity of the sitter
- Oil on canvas, unstretched
- 79.5 by 59.5cm., 31 1/4 by 23 1/2 in.
Half length, wearing a plum-coloured cloak
Literature
1801 Inventory, no 15;
1914 Inventory, p.2;
Edmund Farrer, Portraits in Suffolk Houses East, Vol.II, MSS, 1921, listed as no.31 at Broke Hall;
Catalogue Note
The sitter was the son of Sir John Hewett, Bt., of Headley Hall, Yorkshire, and Waresley, Huntingdonshire, and his wife, Frances, daughter of Sir Toby Tyrell, Bt. He married Mrs Pinkney.