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Thomas Bardwell 1704-1767
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1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description
- Thomas Bardwell
- Portrait of Dorothy Aspin, Mrs. Nathaniel Acton
- Formerly signed and dated l.r.: T.Bardwell. f. 1762
- Oil on canvas, unstretched
- 72.5 by 57 cm.; 28½ by 22½ in.
Half length, wearing van Dyck dress
Literature
Edmund Farrer, Portraits in Suffolk Houses, East , Vol.I. MSS, listed as no.6 at Shrubland;
M. Kirby Talley, 'Thomas Bardwell of Bungay, Artist and Author 1704-1767 with a Checklist of Works', Walpole Society, Vol. XLVI, 1976-78, pp.128-129, no.1, pl.18b
M. Kirby Talley, 'Thomas Bardwell of Bungay, Artist and Author 1704-1767 with a Checklist of Works', Walpole Society, Vol. XLVI, 1976-78, pp.128-129, no.1, pl.18b
Catalogue Note
The sitter was the second wife of Nathaniel Acton (1725-1795) whom she married in October 1761. She died in 1805.