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Circle of Thomas Gibson
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description
- Thomas Gibson
- Portrait of Robert Broke, Jnr. (1701-1718)
- Inscribed u.l. with the identity of the sitter
- Oil on canvas, oval, in a carved wood frame
- 76 by 63.5 cm.; 30 by 25 in.
Half length, wearing academic dress
Literature
1914 Inventory, p.7;
Edmund Farrer, Portraits in Suffolk Houses East, Vol.II, MSS, 1921, listed as no.22 at Broke Hall
Catalogue Note
The sitter was the son of Robert Broke of Nacton (see previous lot), and his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Hewett. He is dressed as a Commoner of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.