Lot Essay
Abstrupus Danby, son of Abstrupus Danby, Knt. of Masham, Yorkshire (for whom see lot 1) matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1698 and was admitted to the Middle Temple in 1697.
Portrait of Abstrupus Danby (b.1682), as a boy, seated full-length, in grey and white dress and a plumed hat, holding a bow in his right hand, in a wooded landscape
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Portrait of Abstrupus Danby (b.1682), as a boy, seated full-length, in grey and white dress and a plumed hat, holding a bow in his right hand, in a wooded landscape
with identifying inscription (on a label attached to the stretcher
oil on canvas
49½ x 40 in. (125.7 x 101.6 cm.)
Portrait of Abstrupus Danby (b.1682), as a boy, seated full-length, in grey and white dress and a plumed hat, holding a bow in his right hand, in a wooded landscape
with identifying inscription (on a label attached to the stretcher
oil on canvas
49½ x 40 in. (125.7 x 101.6 cm.)
Sale room notice
Please note that this picture is by Garret Morphy (fl.1680-1715/16) and is included in Dr. Jane Fenlon's article Garret Morphy and his Circle, Irish Arts Review, 1991-92, no. 17.