Royal & Noble Including Jewels from an Important Noble Collection
Royal & Noble Including Jewels from an Important Noble Collection
The Property of Sir Brooke Boothby, 15th Bt., removed from Fonmon Castle, Glamorgan
Attributed to Thomas Hill
Portrait of a young lady, thought to be of the Bristow family, half-length, wearing a pink dress with a white chemise
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January 17, 03:52 PM GMT
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4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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The Property of Sir Brooke Boothby, 15th Bt., removed from Fonmon Castle, Glamorgan
Attributed to Thomas Hill
? 1661–1734 Mitcham
Portrait of a young lady, thought to be of the Bristow family, half-length, wearing a pink dress with a white chemise
oil on canvas, in a painted oval
unframed: 77.7 x 63.8 cm.; 30⅝ x 25⅛ in.
framed: 94.5 x 79.6 cm.; 37¼ x 31⅜ in.
By descent in the Boothby family at Fonmon Castle, Glamorgan, to the present owner.
J. Steegman, A Survey of Portraits in Welsh Houses, 2 vols, Cardiff 1962, vol. II, p. 94, no. 13 (as Anonymous, c. 1700–10);
A.D. Fraser Jenkins, 'The Paintings at Fonmon Castle', in S. Williams, Stewart Williams’ Glamorgan Historian, vol. 7, Glamorgan 1971, pp. 62–63, reproduced (as Anonymous, c. 1710, probably Thomas Hill).
As demonstrated by the plaque on this painting's frame, the sitter was traditionally identified as Susanna Bristow (1752–1822), wife of Sir Brooke Boothby, 6th (or 7th) Bt. (1744–1824): a poet and friend of Jean-Jacques Rousseau who was famously painted by Joseph Wright of Derby. However, on stylistic grounds, the present portrait is likely dateable to no later than 1715, therefore preceding Susanna's birth date of 1752. It may instead be a portrait of another member of the Bristow family.