Portrait of Mrs Neate, of Donnington, Hampshire, half-length, in an embroidered silver shawl trimmed with fur, seated by a table with a spaniel her lap, in an interior, beside a polescreen

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George Knapton (1698-1778)
Portrait of Mrs Neate, of Donnington, Hampshire, half-length, in an embroidered silver shawl trimmed with fur, seated by a table with a spaniel her lap, in an interior, beside a polescreen
oil on canvas
40 x 50 in. (101.6 x 127 cm.)
in a carved and gilded 18th Century maratta frame

Provenance

By descent in the family of the sitter.

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Lot Essay

The sitter married Samuel Van der Wall in 1744. Her son, or perhaps daughter, was painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, circa 1746 (see D. Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds, A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, New Haven and London, 2000, I, no. 1785, II, fig. 27).
The latter portrait was sold at Sotheby's. by Commander C.E. Neate, on 3 July 1956.

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