Enoch Seeman (1694-1745)

Portrait of a Lady, probably Mary Fermor (d.1729), wife of Sir John Wodehouse, 4th Bt., three-quarter-length, seated, in a white dress, holding a straw hat and a staff in her lap, in a wooded landscape

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Enoch Seeman (1694-1745)
Portrait of a Lady, probably Mary Fermor (d.1729), wife of Sir John Wodehouse, 4th Bt., three-quarter-length, seated, in a white dress, holding a straw hat and a staff in her lap, in a wooded landscape
with inscription and date 'Lady Lempster 1685' (lower left)
oil on canvas
49 x 39 in. (124.5 x 99 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's London, 13 November 1991, lot 33.

Lot Essay

Mary Fermor was the daughter of Sir William Fermor, Bt. and his second wife Catherine Poulett. In 1705 she married Sir John Wodehouse, 4th Bt.. Her father was created Baron Lempster (or Leominster) in 1692.

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