Portrait of Dudley North (1707-1764), three-quarter-length, in a blue velvet coat and a gold embroidered waistcoat, holding a tricorn, a landscape beyond

Details

Enoch Seeman (c.1694-1745)
Portrait of Dudley North (1707-1764), three-quarter-length, in a blue velvet coat and a gold embroidered waistcoat, holding a tricorn, a landscape beyond
oil on canvas
48 x 40 in. (122 x 101.6 cm.)

Provenance

By descent in the family of the sitter to the 9th Earl of Guilford, Waldershare Park, Dover; Christie's, London, 21 November 1980, lot 91.
Bought from Great Brampton House Antiques, Hereford, 1986.

Literature

Waldershare Park Catalogue, no. 155.

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Lot Essay

Dudley North (1707-1764) who lived at Glemham Hall, Suffolk, was the son of Dudley North (1684-1729); who was Member of Parliament for Suffolk, and later in 1722 for the borough of Oxford, and his wife Catherine, daughter of Elihu Yale, founder of Yale University. His great-grandfather was Dudley, 4th Baron North, K.B., and his great uncle Francis was created 1st Baron Guildford. The sitter married Barbara, daughter of Thomas Herbert, Earl of Pembroke.

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