Details
CIRCLE OF SIR GODFREY KNELLER (LÜBECK 1646-1723 LONDON)
Portrait of Anne, Lady Tipping, née Cheke (1678-1727), full-length, in a blue gown, standing beside a draped pedestal
oil on canvas, unlined
86 5⁄8 x 53 ½ in. (220 x 135.8 cm.)
with identifying inscription 'Lady Tipping / Daughter of Coll. Cheek' (lower right)
in a frame of foliate carved and pierced giltwood, applied to an ebonised subframe
Please note that 100% of the hammer proceeds from this auction will be paid to the Sandys Trust, registered charity number: 1168357, with the exception of limited deductions towards sale costs across the auction which cannot be accurately calculated at this time, capped at a total of £10,000.
Provenance
By descent to the sitter's daughter,
Letitia Tipping (1699-1779), wife of Samuel Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys (1695-1770), and by descent to their son,
Edwin Sandys, 2nd Baron Sandys (1726-1797), and by inheritance to his niece,
Mary, Marchioness of Downshire and 1st Baroness Sandys (1764-1836), and by descent to her second son,
Lieutenant-General Arthur Hill, 2nd Baron Sandys (1792-1860), and by inheritance to his younger brother,
Arthur Marcus Sandys, 3rd Baron Sandys (1798-1863), and thence by descent to,
Richard Hill, 7th Baron Sandys (1931-2013), at Ombersley Court, Worcestershire.
Literature
Ombersley Court Inventory, c. 1770-1775, Ombersley MS., where listed in the Salon Room.
J. Grego, Inventory of Pictures: Portraits, Paintings, etc., Ombersley MS., 1905, as ‘Kneller?’, where listed in the Grand Saloon.
ONM / 1 / 2 / 7, journal entry for a visit to Ombersley Court, 25 August 1950, Oliver Millar Archive, Paul Mellon Centre, London, pp. 26 and 27.
Ombersley Court Inventory, June 1963, annotated Ombersley MS., as 'Thomas Hudson', where listed in the Saloon.
Ombersley Court Catalogue of Pictures, undated, Ombersley MS., p. 22, as 'Hudson', where listed in the Saloon.
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