Francis Alleyne (fl.1774-1790)

Portrait of Richard Wood, seated three-quarter-length, in a green coat with a red collar and buff coloured breeches, holding a cane in his left hand; and Portrait of the Hon. Mrs Vane, seated three-quarter-length, in a black dress and black plumed hat, ho

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Francis Alleyne (fl.1774-1790)
Portrait of Richard Wood, seated three-quarter-length, in a green coat with a red collar and buff coloured breeches, holding a cane in his left hand; and Portrait of the Hon. Mrs Vane, seated three-quarter-length, in a black dress and black plumed hat, holding a book in her right hand
oil on canvas, oval
18 x 15 in. (45.7 x 38 cm.), 17¾ x 14¾ in. (45 x 37.5 cm.)
Provenance
by descent in the family of the sitters at Hollin Hall.

Lot Essay

Richard and Elizabeth Wood were the eldest son and elder daughter of Richard Wood and his wife Elizabeth, second daughter of Hutton Perkins, of Mill Hill, Middlesex. Elizabeth married the Hon. Charles Vane (d.1796), sixth son of Gilbert Vane, 2nd Baron Barnard, of Mount Ida, Norfolk, in 1776, by whom she had had an only daughter and heir, Elizabeth Frederica, who married, in 1795, Sir William Langham, 8th Bt., later Sheriff of Northamptonshire. Richard Wood inherited Hollin Hall from his father on the latter's death in 1797.

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