Circle of Daniel Mytens (1590-1648)

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

Details

Circle of Daniel Mytens (1590-1648)

Portrait of Sir Archibald Acheson, 1st Bt. (d. 1634), full-length, in a dark doublet and cape, with white lace cuffs and collar, by a desk, a landscape beyond

bears coat-of-arms right centre, and inscribed and dated '1631'
bears an old label on reverse 'William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling, created Baronet of Nova Scotia, in 1628 of Keeper of the Kings signet in Scotland'
unframed
79 x 59 5/8in. (201 x 152cm.)

Provenance

by descent in the Davers family at Rushbrooke Hall, Suffolk until
Knight, Frank and Rutley, 10 December 1919, lot 61 (as Van Dyck)
bought back by the family and by descent

Literature

Rushbrook Parish Registers 1567 to 1850 with Jermyn and Davers Annals, Woodbridge, 1903, p. 405 and pp. 434-435

Lot Essay

Archibald Acheson of Gosford was the son of Captain Patrick Acheson of Edinburgh. During the second decade of the seventeenth century grants of land were made to the sitter in Co. Armagh and Co. Cavan. He served as Solicitor-General, Senator of Justice and ultimately Secretary of State for Scotland. In 1628 he was created a Baronet of Nova Scotia, thus holding a grant of a portion of land in the new colony with Sir William Alexander, later Earl of Stirling, acting as King Charles I's Lieutenant in Nova Scotia. The sitter died in 1634 and was succeeded by his son Patrick by his wife Mary Vernor.

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