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English School, 17th Century
Portrait of Sarah Prideaux, wife of John Fortescue, three-quarter length in a black, gold-embroidered dress, and white lace ruff chemise, and a black headdress with white lace, with her son Hugh, three-quarter length in a light brown doublet, white ruff holding a book, with a dog
inscribed top left 'Sarah Prideaux uxor John Fortescue/compleatens petru fortescue fil n.rin/4th qui duxit Eliza fit joins Boland/A..Sua 39/An Dom 1623' and top right 'Hue majoru suorit simulchra vetustale/laborantia eiluson: istins Petri Pietatis ergo restitu fecit Anno/DM1693'
32¾ x 30in. (83.2 x 76.2cm.)
Portrait of Sarah Prideaux, wife of John Fortescue, three-quarter length in a black, gold-embroidered dress, and white lace ruff chemise, and a black headdress with white lace, with her son Hugh, three-quarter length in a light brown doublet, white ruff holding a book, with a dog
inscribed top left 'Sarah Prideaux uxor John Fortescue/compleatens petru fortescue fil n.rin/4th qui duxit Eliza fit joins Boland/A..Sua 39/An Dom 1623' and top right 'Hue majoru suorit simulchra vetustale/laborantia eiluson: istins Petri Pietatis ergo restitu fecit Anno/DM1693'
32¾ x 30in. (83.2 x 76.2cm.)