Portrait of Elizabeth, Duchess of Dorset, full-length, in a white dress with a blue wrap, leaning on a stone pedestal with her left hand, beside a draped curtain

細節

Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lubeck 1646-1723 London)
Portrait of Elizabeth, Duchess of Dorset, full-length, in a white dress with a blue wrap, leaning on a stone pedestal with her left hand, beside a draped curtain
oil on canvas
90¼ x 55 in. (229.2 x 139.7 cm.)

來源

Presumably by descent to William Colyear, 3rd Earl of Portmore (1747-1823), and by inheritance through his sister, Lady Juliana Colyear (1735-1821), wife of Henry Dawkins (1724-1814) of Over Norton, Oxon, and Standlynch Park, Wiltshire, to her grandson Rev. E.H. Dawkins (1794-1859), of Moggerhanger House, Bedfordshire; Christie's, London, 28 February 1913, lot 28 (680 gns. to Lord Curzon).
The Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, K.G., 1 Carlton House Terrace; Christie's, London, 10 July 1931, lot 123 (335 gns. to Green).
John, 2nd Baron Gretton, Stapleford Park, Lincolnshire and by inheritance.

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拍品專文

Elizabeth Colyear (1687-1768), daughter of Lieutenant-General Walter Colyear and niece of David, 1st Earl of Portmore, married Lionel Sackville (1688-1765), 7th Earl of Dorset, later created 1st Duke of Dorset, in 1708. She was a maid of honour to Queen Anne at the time of her marriage and later became first lady of the bedchamber to Queen Caroline. The couple had six children and her eldest son Charles succeeded his father as the second Duke of Dorset.