Old Master and British Works on Paper, including Portrait Miniatures from the Pohl-Ströher Collection

Old Master and British Works on Paper, including Portrait Miniatures from the Pohl-Ströher Collection

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 111. Portrait Sir Danvers Osborn, 3rd Bt (1715-1753), circa 1735.

Property from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher (1919-2016)

Christian Friedrich Zincke

Portrait Sir Danvers Osborn, 3rd Bt (1715-1753), circa 1735

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December 4, 03:51 PM GMT

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Property from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher (1919-2016)

Christian Friedrich Zincke

Dresden 1683/4 - 1767 South Lambeth

Portrait Sir Danvers Osborn, 3rd Bt (1715-1753), circa 1735


Enamel, open-work gilt-metal frame

44 by 36 mm.

Sale, London, Christie's, 4 June 2013, lot 137;
where acquired by Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher (1919-2016)
The sitter was the son of Sir John Osborn and his wife the Hon. Sarah Byng, the only surviving daughter of Admiral Sir George Byng, later Viscount Torrington. He succeded his grandfather, Sir John Osborn, 2nd Bt in 1740. That same year he married Lady Mary Montagu, daughter of the 1st Earl of Halifax.

In the 1742 he became a memeber of parliment and during the Jacobite rebellion of 1745, he raised troops in aid of the King. In 1753 he was appointed Governor of New York Province, however, six days after his arrival in America he died. The town of Danvers, Massachussets is named after him.