Portrait of Catherine North, three-quarter-length, in a yellow dress and red wrap, a landscape beyond

Details

Follower of Sir Godfrey Kneller
Portrait of Catherine North, three-quarter-length, in a yellow dress and red wrap, a landscape beyond
oil on canvas, unlined
49 x 39 in. (124.5 x 99.2 cm.)
in its original carved, gilded and gadrooned frame

Provenance

The Earls of Guilford, and by descent to the present owner.

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Lot Essay

The sitter was the daughter of Elihu Yale (c. 1648-1721), founder of Yale college in New Haven, Connecticut, and his wife Catherine (1651-1728), widow of Yale's business partner Joseph Hynmers. Catherine and her siblings were born in Madras where her father was in business, and did not arrive in England until 1689. She later married Dudley North of Glemham (for a portrait of whom see lots 52 and 54).

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