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Circle of Sir Peter Lely
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Circle of Sir Peter Lely

Portrait of Margaret, Lady Style, half-length, in an oyster satin dress and pearls, feigned oval

Details
Circle of Sir Peter Lely
Portrait of Margaret, Lady Style, half-length, in an oyster satin dress and pearls, feigned oval
Inscribed 'Margaret Style nee Margaret Twisden 2nd wife of Sir Thomas Style 2nd Bart of Wateringbury' (on a label on the reverse)
oil on canvas
29 x 24in. (73.7 x 61cm.)
in an English 17th Century carved giltwood Sunderland frame
Provenance
Wateringbury Place, Maidstone, Kent, Christie's House Sale, 31 May - 1 June 1978, lot 336, as Jacob Huysmans.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

The sitter was the daughter of Sir Thomas Twisden, Bt., of Bradburne, Kent, one of the Judges of the Court of the King's Bench. This portrait was painted after her marriage to Sir Thomas Style of Wateringbury, as his second wife. A companion portrait was also painted of the sitter as Miss Margaret Twisden before her marriage and sold as lot 335, Wateringbury Place, Maidstone, Kent, Christie's House Sale, 31 May - 1 June 1978. Lady Style died on 5 December, 1718.

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