The Family Collection of the late Countess Mountbatten of Burma

The Family Collection of the late Countess Mountbatten of Burma

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Attributed to Edward Bower

Portrait of James Hugessen (d. 1646); and Portrait of his wife, Jane Adrian

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March 24, 08:41 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

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Attributed to Edward Bower

Totnes 1576 - 1667 London

Portrait of James Hugessen (d. 1646); and Portrait of his wife, Jane Adrian


the former charged with the Hugessen coat-of-arms and dated upper left: 1636

a pair, both oil on canvas

each: 116 x 93 cm.

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By descent to William Western Hugessen (1736-64), Provender, Kent;
To his daughter and co-heiress, Mary Western Hugessen (d. 1784) and her husband Sir Edward Knatchbull, 8th Bt. (1758-1819).
The Hugessen family originally came from Dunkirk in Flanders. James Hugessen bought two estates in Kent: Sewards in Lynsted, and Provender in Norton. He was High Sheriff of Kent. The tomb commemorating him and his wife, Jane, in the form of painted recumbent sculptures, along with the figures of their seven children, is in the church of St Peter and St Paul, Lynsted. The inscription on the tomb identifies James Hugessen as a ‘Merchant Adventurer’ – a career to which the seascape and ship visible in the background behind him here, evidently refer.