Portrait of Penelope Bayfield of Dedham Grove, Essex, three-quarter-length

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THOMAS HUDSON (DEVON 1701-1779 TWICKENHAM)
Portrait of Penelope Bayfield of Dedham Grove, Essex, three-quarter-length
oil on canvas
49 ¾ x 39 ½ in. (126.5 x 100.5 cm.)

Provenance

with Agnew's, London, by 1933.
with James A. Lewis & Son, New York.
Baron Carl Gottfried Eduard von Seidlitz (1874-1954) and Baroness Frieda Frash Constantino von Seidlitz (1879-1951), The Ritz Carlton Hotel, New York; their sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, 3 May 1947, lot 106, when acquired for $650 by the following,
Dr. W. Philipp, Great Neck Estates, Long Island.
with Leggatt, where acquired in 1984 by the following,
Private collection; [The Property of a Gentleman], Christie's, New York, 31 October 2017, lot 49, where acquired by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

The sitter's pose and the background rock ledge are close to Thomas Hudson's well-known portrait of Mary Panton, Duchess of Ancaster (Grimsthorpe Castle, Ancaster Collection), dated 1757, as well as a portrait of Margaret Oxenden by Hudson's pupil, Joseph Wright of Derby (Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales). The present painting probably dates to the second half of the 1750s, when Hudson was in competition with his greatest pupil, Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), for prominent London portrait commissions.

A portrait of similar size by Hudson said to depict William Bayfield was with Agnew's in 1921.

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