Lot 275
  • 275

John Verelst fl. 1698-1734

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • John Verelst
  • Portrait of Mary Rous, Mrs Nathaniel Acton (Died 1717)
  • Inscribed l.l. with the identity of the sitter

  • Oil on canvas, in a carved wood frame
  • 127 by 101.5 cm.; 50 by 40 in.
Three quarter length, seated, wearing a brown dress and blue cloak, fruit on her lap

Catalogue Note

The sitter was the daughter of Sir John Rous Bt. of Henham Hall, Suffolk.  She married, as his first wife, Nathaniel Acton (see previous lot), son of John Acton and his wife, Elizabeth Lambe.