Double Portrait of Juliana and Charity Hele, full-length, seated on a terrace, in pink dresses, the former holding a dog in her lap, with a chough in the foreground

Details

Circle of James Maubert (1666-1746)
Double Portrait of Juliana and Charity Hele, full-length, seated on a terrace, in pink dresses, the former holding a dog in her lap, with a chough in the foreground
with identifying inscription 'Lady Portmore &/her Sister' (on an old label attached to the stretcher)
oil on canvas
50½ x 40 in. (128.4 x 101.6 cm.)
in a 17th Century black painted Lely-panel frame wrapped with laurel flowered Roman acanthus at the centres and corners

Provenance

The Dukes of Leeds, Hornby Castle, and by descent.

Literature

Historical and Descriptive Catalogue of Pictures Belonging to His Grace the Duke of Leeds, 1902, no.126, Hornby Castle.

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Lot Essay

The sitters were the daughters of Roger Hele of Holwell, Devon. Juliana (1705-94) married twice, firstly Peregrine, Viscount Dunblane, afterwards 3rd Duke of Leeds, as his third wife, and secondly Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore (1700-85). Her sister, Charity, married the Rt. Hon. George Treby, of Plympton.

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