Portrait of Sir Thomas Tipping (1614-1693), three-quarter-length, in armour with a red sash, holding a baton

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ENGLISH SCHOOL, MID-17TH CENTURY
Portrait of Sir Thomas Tipping (1614-1693), three-quarter-length, in armour with a red sash, holding a baton
oil on canvas
48 ¾ x 40 in. (123.7 x 101.8 cm.)
with identifying inscription 'S^r. Tho: Tipping.' (lower right)

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

(Presumably) by descent to the sitter's son,
Sir Thomas Tipping, 1st Bt. (1653-1718), and by descent to his 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 by descent in the family to,
Richard Hill, 7th Baron Sandys (1931-2013), Ombersley Court, Worcestershire.

Literature

J. Grego, Inventory of Pictures: Portraits, Paintings, etc., Ombersley MS., 1905, where listed in the Grand Staircase.
ONM / 1 / 2 / 7, journal entry for a visit to Ombersley Court, 25 August 1950, Oliver Millar Archive, Paul Mellon Centre, London, p. 23.
A. Oswald, 'Ombersley Court, Worcestershire - II', Country Life, 9 January 1953, p. 95, visible in pl. 4.
Ombersley Court Inventory, June 1963, annotated Ombersley MS., where listed in the Principal Staircase and Landing.
Ombersley Court Catalogue of Pictures, undated, Ombersley MS., p. 36, where listed in the Main Staircase.

Exhibited

Birmingham, City Museum and Art Gallery, Commemorative Exhibition of the Art Treasures of the Midlands, 1934, no. 470, lent by Lord Sandys, as 'Robert Walker'.

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Lot Essay

Sir Thomas Tipping inherited the Wheatfield estate in Oxfordshire following the death of his grandfather in 1626. Just over ten years later he married Elizabeth Beconshaw, heiress of Moyles Court, Hampshire. The couple had sixteen children together, including Thomas Tipping (see lot 98), the father of Letitia Tipping (see lots 97 and 100). Tipping’s politics appear to have been aligned with the Parliamentarians during the civil war, but like many, his allegiances shifted again with the restoration of the monarchy and he was made Knight Bachelor by Charles II in June 1660. A striking portrait in the Tate Gallery, London by Gilbert Soest (inv. no. T04162) was perhaps painted to mark this honour.

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