Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723)

Portrait of Lady Anne Walpole (1657-1722), three-quarter-length, seated, in a gold dress with a blue cloak, in a wooded landscape

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Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723)
Portrait of Lady Anne Walpole (1657-1722), three-quarter-length, seated, in a gold dress with a blue cloak, in a wooded landscape
with inscription 'Y^e Lady Anne Wallpole./Daughter to Y^e Duke of Leeds./Painted by Sr G. Kneller/Lined, cleaned, &c. by H.W. Holder. AD. 1851.' (on the relining canvas)
oil on canvas
50 x 40¾ in. (127 x 103.5 cm.)
in a contemporary English oak leaf carved frame with painted graining [partly refreshed]

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. 79., in the first oak parlour [Hornby Castle].

Lot Essay

The sitter was the daughter of Sir Thomas, 1st Duke of Leeds, Lord High Treasurer of England, and his wife Bridget, daughter of Montague Bertie, Earl of Lindsey, Lord Great Chamberlain of England. She married, firstly, Robert Coke of Holkham and secondly Horatio Walpole. This portrait would appear stylistically to date from circa 1690.

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