Lot 4
  • 4

Circle of Willem Wissing, 1656-1687

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description

  • Willem Wissing
  • Portrait of Alice, Countess of Drogheda (1625-c.1696)
  • inscribed with the identity of the sitter
  • oil on canvas
  • 124x99cm.; 48¾x39in.
Three-quarter length, standing in a landscape, wearing a grey dress

Provenance

By family descent

Catalogue Note

The sitter was the daughter of William Spencer, 2nd Baron Spencer of Wormleighton, and his wife, Penelope, daughter of Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton. She married Henry, Earl of Drogheda.