ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS BARDWELL (EAST ANGLIA 1704-1767 NORWICH)
Portrait of Catherine Affleck (d.1760), half-length, in vandyckian dress, in a feigned oval
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ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS BARDWELL (EAST ANGLIA 1704-1767 NORWICH) Portrait of Catherine Affleck (d.1760), half-length, in vandyckian dress, in a feigned oval
oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm.)
inscribed 'Catherine Affleck wife of wm Metcalfe Efq / 1746' (lower left); in a Lely panel frame
Catherine Affleck was the daughter of Gilbert Affleck of Dalham Hall, Suffolk, and his wife Anne. In 1733 she married William Metcalfe of Fordham Abbey, Cambridgeshire.