CORNELIS JONSON VAN CEULEN (ANGLO-DUTCH, 1593-1661/2)

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CORNELIS JONSON VAN CEULEN (ANGLO-DUTCH, 1593-1661/2)
Lady Pakington, née Dorothy Coventry (1623-1679), in décolleté white silk dress, black gauze shawl over her right shoulder, pearl-set brooch at corsage, pearl necklace, large drop-pearl earrings and strands of pearls adorning her curling hair
oil on copper
oval, 2 7/16 in. (63 mm.) high, turned wood frame with inner gilt surround
inscribed on the backing board 'Lady Pachington [sic] Daughter of Lord Keeper Coventry 17th Cen^t^y'

Provenance

By direct family descent.

Exhibited

Leeds, National Exhibition of Works of Art, 1868.

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Lot Essay

Lady Pakington was the daughter of Sir Thomas Coventry (1578-1640) and his second wife Elizabeth. She married Sir John Pakington, 2nd Bt of Westwood, Worcestershire, who had been Lord Coventry's ward since his father's death in 1624. Together they had a son, John Pakington, who succeeded as 3rd Bt.

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