
Portrait of Lady Margaret Feilding, Duchess of Hamilton (1613-1638) after Anthony van Dyck
No reserve
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Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
Henry Pierce Bone
London 1779-1855
Portrait of Lady Margaret Feilding, Duchess of Hamilton (1613-1638) after Sir Anthony van Dyck
Enamel, gilt-wood frame;
signed, dated and inscribed on the counter-enamel: Lady Mary Feilding Duchess of Hamilton / London Novr. 1839. Painted for J.P. Ord Esq by Henry / Pierce Bone Enamel Painter to the Queen the Queen / Dowager & the Duchess of Kent. From the Original / by Vandyck in the Collection of the Earl of Denbigh / Newnham Paddox, Warwickshire.
212 by 169 mm
The artist’s studio sale, Christie’s, London, 14 March 1856, lot 133 (44 gns. to White);
Christie’s, London, 10 June 2010, lot 133.
The sitter was the daughter of William Feilding, 1st Earl of Denbigh and Susan Villiers. In 1620 she married James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton (1606-1649). Lady Margaret was appointed a Lady of the Bedchamber by Queen Henrietta Maria.
According to the inscription on the verso of this enamel, the portrait by Van Dyck hung at Newnham Paddox, Warwickshire, the ancestral home of the Feilding family.
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