Lot Essay
Versions of this picture are in the National Portrait Gallery, London; and Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire.
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Portrait of the artist, half-length, in a blue robe
Details
Studio of Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723)
Portrait of the artist, half-length, in a blue robe
oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.4 cm.)
Portrait of the artist, half-length, in a blue robe
oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.4 cm.)
Provenance
The Dukes of Portland, Welbeck Abbey
By descent to The Lady Anne Bentinck
Anon sale; Christie's, London, 20 November 1981, lot 103, (1155 gns).
Anon sale; Sotheby's, London, 15 February 1989, lot 265, (3465 gns).
By descent to The Lady Anne Bentinck
Anon sale; Christie's, London, 20 November 1981, lot 103, (1155 gns).
Anon sale; Sotheby's, London, 15 February 1989, lot 265, (3465 gns).
Literature
The Welbeck Catalogue, 1880, no.102. C. Fairfax Murray, Welbeck Catalogue Raisonne, 1894.
R.W. Goulding and C. K. Adams, Catalogue of pictures belonging to his Grace the Duke of Portland K.G., 1936, no.5.
D. Piper, 'The National Portrait Gallery: Some recent aquisitions', Connoisseur, 1954, vol. CXXXIII, p.177.
D. Piper, The National Portrait Gallery, 1963, p.190.
R.W. Goulding and C. K. Adams, Catalogue of pictures belonging to his Grace the Duke of Portland K.G., 1936, no.5.
D. Piper, 'The National Portrait Gallery: Some recent aquisitions', Connoisseur, 1954, vol. CXXXIII, p.177.
D. Piper, The National Portrait Gallery, 1963, p.190.
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