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English School, c.1760s
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English School, c.1760s

Portrait of Frederick, Lord North, 2nd Earl of Guilford (1732-1792), with his wife Anne, and child, possibly George Augustus, in a landscape, Wroxton Abbey beyond

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English School, c.1760s
Portrait of Frederick, Lord North, 2nd Earl of Guilford (1732-1792), with his wife Anne, and child, possibly George Augustus, in a landscape, Wroxton Abbey beyond
oil on canvas, unlined
70 x 50 in. (177.7 x 127 cm.)
Provenance
The Earls of Guilford, and by descent to the present owner.
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Lot Essay

The present family portrait depicts Frederick, Lord North, 2nd Earl of Guilford (1732-1792) together with his wife Anne, daughter of George Speke (c. 1740-1797) and one of their seven children in a landscape. In the distance can be seen a view of the family seat Wroxton Abbey near Banbury in Oxfordshire, a Jacobean mansion dating from the early 17th century. It was constructed on the foundations of a 13th Century Augustinian priory and has hosted a number of royal and political figures, among them James I, Charles I, George IV, William IV, and Frederick Prince of Wales, as well as Horace Walpole and Theodore Roosevelt.

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