Attributed to James Fellowes (active Cheshire 1719-1751)

Portrait of Peter Brooke (1722-1783), full length, in Oriental costume, a black tasselled hat in his right hand, in an interior

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Attributed to James Fellowes (active Cheshire 1719-1751)
Portrait of Peter Brooke (1722-1783), full length, in Oriental costume, a black tasselled hat in his right hand, in an interior
inscribed 'Peter Brooke Son of Peter Brooke aged 7 1728' (on the reverse, presumably transcribed from the original canvas)
oil on canvas
50½ x 40 7/8 in. (128.4 x 103.8 cm.)
with inventory number '36' (on the stretcher)

Provenance

The Brooke family, Mere Hall, Knutsford, Cheshire, and by descent.
The late Mrs. Helen Langford-Brooke, Mere Hall, Knutsford, Cheshire; sold Christie's house sale, 23 May 1994, lot 255 as 'English School, 1728'.

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Lot Essay

The sitter was the son of Peter Brooke of Mere (1695-1764), and his wife Frances, daughter and heiress of Francis Hollinshed of Wheelock, Cheshire. He married twice, firstly Meriel, daughter of Fleetwood Legh, of Lyme Hall, and secondly Elizabeth, daughter of Jonas Langford of Theobalds and Antigua. They had three sons and three daughters. Their second son Jonas went on the Grand Tour and acquired part of the collection during his time in Italy, before he died in Milan in 1784.
The sitter was Sheriff of Cheshire in 1766, a position his father held in 1728; the year this portrait was painted.

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