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English School circa 1690
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description
- English School
- Portrait of Martha de Beauvoir
- Oil on canvas, in a painted oval, in an eighteenth century carved wood frame
- 76 by 63.5 cm.; 30 by 25 in.
Half length, wearing a grey dress with red lining, holding a sprig of orange blossom, her spaniel in her lap
Catalogue Note
The Beauvoir family were rich East India traders. Osmond de Beauvoir (1680-1757) lived at Downham Hall in Essex and in Bedford Row in London, and the sitter in this portrait must be related to him.