English School, 1665

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English School, 1665

Portrait of Elizabeth Windham, second wife of Thomas Morgan of Machan and Tredegar, with her Son, the former, seated three-quarter-length, in a brown dress, holding pink roses, the latter full-length, in a blue and white dress and lace bonnet, holding a rattle, a red curtain behind

inscribed and dated, upper right 'AE[linked]tatis Suae[linked]50 1665'
44¼ x 33¼in. (112.4 x 84.4cm.)

Provenance

By descent to the 2nd Viscount Lord Tredegar, Perth, Monmouthshire, by whom sold in or soon after 1961

Literature

J. Steegman, A Survey of Portraits in Welsh Houses, II, South Wales, Cardiff, 1962, p. 162, no. 10.

Exhibited

Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, Temporary Exhibition of Portraits, February - April 1934, no. 13.

Lot Essay

The sitter was the daughter of Francis Windham of Sardhill, Somerset and in 1635 married Thomas Morgan of Machen and Tredegar (1660-1664). Steegman identifies the boy as her elder son William, the builder of Tredegar House, who, however, married in 1661, he had six younger brothers

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