Lot 27
  • 27

Enoch Seeman c.1694-1745

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • Enoch Seeman
  • Portrait of Mary, Lady Arundell of Wardour (1716-1769)
  • later inscribed l.r.: Mary y daughter & heir of R Arundel of Lanihurne in Cornwall / Esq and Cousin to Elizabeth Lady Bedingfield. she married in 1739 her / relation Lord Arundel of Wardour who died 1756.  She died in..[?]
  • oil on canvas
three-quarter length, seated in a landscape, wearing a gold dress, a whippet on her lap wearing a collar inscribed 'Arundel'

Provenance

Colonel J. R. Harvey, Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk;
Purchased by the present owner at the sale of Oxburgh Hall, 1952

Literature

Prince Frederick Duleep Singh, Portraits in Norfolk Houses, 1927, vol. II., p. 107, no. 4

Condition

STRUCTURE Original canvas. PAINT SURFACE There is even cracquelure throughout the painting with some concentrated areas of cracquelure to the centre right. There are minor stretcher marks along the edges of the canvas. There is some surface dirt and there are a few surface marks. ULTRAVIOLET Ultraviolet light reveals no repair work or re-touching. FRAME Held in a gilt wood frame.
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Catalogue Note

The sitter was the daughter and sole heir of Richard Bellings-Arundell of Lanherne Cornwall and his wife Anne Gage. On 27th January 1739 she married Henry Arundell, Baron Arundell of Wardour.