Lot 277
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Herman van der Mijn circa 1684-1741

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description

  • Herman van der Mijn
  • Portrait of Elizabeth Turner, Mrs John Fowle
  • Oil on canvas
  • 122 by 96.5 cm.; 48 by 38 in.
Three quarter length, seated, wearing a brown coloured silk dress, her left arm resting on a table

Literature

Edmund Farrer, Portraits in Suffolk Houses West, 1908, pp.242-243, listed as no.9 at Livermere Park

Catalogue Note

The sitter was the daughter of Sir Charles Turner, 1st Bt. of Warham, and his wife, Mary Walpole, daughter of Robert Walpole, of Houghton, Norfolk, and sister of Sir Robert Walpole.  She married John Fowle, son of John Fowle, of Brome Hall, Suffolk, and his wife, Anne.  He served as Commissioner of the Excise in 1726 and 1760.  Her sister Anne was grandmother of Admiral Lord Nelson.