Circle of Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1659-1743 London)
Circle of Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1659-1743 London)

Portrait of a lady, possibly Lady Bagot (1665-1714), wife of Sir Edward Bagot, 4th Baronet, three-quarter-length, in a blue dress with a red stole, a landscape beyond

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Circle of Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1659-1743 London)
Portrait of a lady, possibly Lady Bagot (1665-1714), wife of Sir Edward Bagot, 4th Baronet, three-quarter-length, in a blue dress with a red stole, a landscape beyond
oil on canvas
49½ x 40 in. (125.6 x 101.6 cm.)
Provenance
Almost certainly acquired by the family following the marriage of John Chester 6th Baronet to Frances, daughter of Sir Edward Bagot of Blithfield in Staffordshire in 1718/19.
Chicheley Hall, Buckinghamshire.
Literature
An Inventory of the household furniture plate China Jappan & Linnen of the Late Sr Charles Bagot Chester Bart Deceas'd taken at his late seat at Chichley in the County of Bucks, June ye 10. 1755' where there is a reference to the following property: 'In the Blew mohair Bedchamber - a Lady ½ length.'

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