Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction
Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction
The Property of Sir Brooke Boothby, 15th Bt., removed from Fonmon Castle, Glamorgan
William Dobson
Portrait of Colonel John Milward (1599–1670)
Auction Closed
December 6, 06:47 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
The Property of Sir Brooke Boothby, 15th Bt., removed from Fonmon Castle, Glamorgan
William Dobson
London 1611–1646
Portrait of Colonel John Milward (1599–1670)
oil on canvas
unframed: 73.5 x 62 cm.; 29 x 24 ½ in.
framed: 93 x 82 cm.; 36⅝ x 32¼ cm.
By descent from the sitter to his daughter, Frances, who married Sir William Boothby, 1st Baronet (1637–1707) in 1653;
Thence by descent in the Boothby family at Ashbourne Hall, Derbyshire and later Fonmon Castle, Vale of Glamorgan, to the present owner.
J. Steegman, A Survey of Portraits in Welsh Houses, 2 vols, Cardiff 1962, vol. II, p. 93, no. 7, reproduced pl. 157;
A. D. Fraser Jenkins, ‘The Paintings at Fonmon Castle’, Glamorgan Historian, 1971, vol. 7, p. 61;
M. Rogers, William Dobson, exh. cat., London 1983, p. 81, no. 42, reproduced.
London, National Portrait Gallery, William Dobson, 1983–84, no. 42.
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