Portrait of a young girl, traditionally identified as Esther Turpin, full-length, seated in a white dress with pink trim, with a toy spaniel in her lap and a goldfinch on her finger, in a landscape, a tower beyond

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Attributed to Isaac Whood (1688/89-1752)
Portrait of a young girl, traditionally identified as Esther Turpin, full-length, seated in a white dress with pink trim, with a toy spaniel in her lap and a goldfinch on her finger, in a landscape, a tower beyond
oil on canvas
45 x 40½ in. (114.3 x 102.9 cm.)

Provenance

By descent to Miss Dorothea Esther Tweedie (according to a label in her hand attached to the stretcher).

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This is an additional lot and is to be sold as viewed. The description for this lot should read; Attributed to Isaac Whood (1688/89-1752) Whood, I. Portrait of a young girl, traditionally identified as Esther Turpin, full-length, seated in a white dress with pink trim, with a toy spaniel in her lap and a goldfinch on her finger, in a landscape, a tower beyond oil on canvas 45 x 40½ in. (114.3 x 102.9 cm.)
£4000-6000

Lot Essay

The present work is datable to circa 1730, and it is therefore unlikely that the traditional identification of the sitter as Esther Turpin is correct; Esther Turpin is recorded as the daughter of John Turpin and married John Fellowes in 1776. The present portrait is likely to depict an earlier member of the Turpin family.

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