John Hoskins (died 1664/5)

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John Hoskins (died 1664/5)

A Lady believed to be Helen, Viscountess Tarras, facing left in blue dress with white underslip, pearl necklace, curled auburn hair

on vellum, signed with initials and dated 1655, gilt-metal frame with spiral cresting
oval, 2 3/8in. (60mm.) high

Provenance

J. Pierpont Morgan, sold Christie's, 25 June 1935, lot 144, portrait of a Lady (said to be Helen, Countess of Tarras, daughter of Thomas Hepburn of Hadington) (60 gns. to A. Walker)

Literature

G. C. Williamson, Catalogue of the Collection of Miniatures, the property of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906, I, no. 86
J. J. Foster, Samuel Cooper and the English Miniature Painters of the XVIIth Century, London, 1914-16, Vol. II, p. 145, no. 179

Lot Essay

Helen, daughter of Thomas Hepburn of Hadington, married Thomas Preston, 1st Viscount Tara as his second wife. He was appointed General of the Confederate Irish Catholics in 1642 and was created Viscount Tara, co. Meath, in the peerage of Ireland, 2 July 1650

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