Lot Essay
The pose of the sitter in the present painting closely resembles that in the portrait of Mrs. Knott by Wissing at Hampton Court.
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Portrait of Frances, Countess of Scarborough, seated three-quarter length, holding a book in her lap, a wooded landscape beyond
Details
School of William Wissing (1653-1687)
Portrait of Frances, Countess of Scarborough, seated three-quarter length, holding a book in her lap, a wooded landscape beyond
inscribed 'Frances Countess of/Scarboroug Daughter of/Sir Henry Jones'
oil on canvas laid down on board
50¼ x 40½in. (127.7 x 103cm.)
Portrait of Frances, Countess of Scarborough, seated three-quarter length, holding a book in her lap, a wooded landscape beyond
inscribed 'Frances Countess of/Scarboroug Daughter of/Sir Henry Jones'
oil on canvas laid down on board
50¼ x 40½in. (127.7 x 103cm.)
Provenance
with J.W. Young Galleries, Chicago, by 1948.
A.B. Logan; Christie's, London, June 14, 1968, lot 9 (unsold),
by whom given to the Art Institute of Chicago in 1985.
A.B. Logan; Christie's, London, June 14, 1968, lot 9 (unsold),
by whom given to the Art Institute of Chicago in 1985.
Exhibited
Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Fifty-four Paintings and Bronzes by Famous American and European Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries, 1948, no. 3.