Lot Essay
The sitter was the fourth daughter and co-heir of the 6th Earl of Thanet. She married Sir Thomas Coke (d. 1759), later Viscount Coke of Holkham, and 1st Earl of Leicester, in 1718.
Details
Circle of John Vanderbank (1694-1739)
Portrait of Lady Margaret Tufton, Countess of Leicester, three-quarter-length, in regal costume, a double column beyond
inscribed and dated 'Margaret Tufton/Baroness Clifford and/Countess of Leicester/1729' (lower right)
oil on canvas
44¼ x 35¾in. (112.4 x 90.8cm.)
Portrait of Lady Margaret Tufton, Countess of Leicester, three-quarter-length, in regal costume, a double column beyond
inscribed and dated 'Margaret Tufton/Baroness Clifford and/Countess of Leicester/1729' (lower right)
oil on canvas
44¼ x 35¾in. (112.4 x 90.8cm.)