Portrait of Lady Catherine Dormer, three-quarter-length, in a pink dress with jewels and a pearl necklace, by a column, with a torch and an urn on a ledge, in a wooded landscape

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John Michael Wright (1617-1694)
Portrait of Lady Catherine Dormer, three-quarter-length, in a pink dress with jewels and a pearl necklace, by a column, with a torch and an urn on a ledge, in a wooded landscape
signed and dated 'Jo, Mich: Ritus./P. 1659' (lower left)
oil on canvas
50 x 41 in. (127 x 104 cm.)
in a black painted and gilded panel frame

Provenance

Earl Poulett, Hinton House, Hinton St. George, Somerset; Sotheby's, 5 February 1969, lot 31, (bought by the present owner).

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Lot Essay

The sitter, the daughter of Montague Bertie, 2nd Earl of Lindsey (b.1608), K.G., and his wife Martha, daughter of Sir William Cokayne, of Northamptonshire, married Robert Dormer (1629-1694) of Rousham, Oxfordshire. Her father had fought in the Royalist cause in the English Civil War at the battles of Edgehill (1642) and Naseby (1645) and was Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire (1660-66) and Lord Great Chamberlain at the Coronation of King Charles II.

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