Portrait of Mary Rand, half-length, seated, in an oyster-satin dress with blue ribbons, holding a string of pearls, in an interior by a blue velvet curtain

Details

Enoch Seeman (c.1694-1745)
Portrait of Mary Rand, half-length, seated, in an oyster-satin dress with blue ribbons, holding a string of pearls, in an interior by a blue velvet curtain
with identifying inscription 'MARY, Daughter of/NORDASH RAND Esq., of Ripple, Kent/Wife of CaptN ROBERT CHADWICK R.N./D.1742.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.6 cm.)
in a carved and gilded Lely panel frame

Provenance

Lady Illingworth (+); Christie's, London, 15 November 1991, lot 12 (sold £6,050).

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Lot Essay

Mary Rand (d. 1742) was the second daughter and heir of Nordash Rand, of Stone Hall. She firstly married Captain Wright in the Royal Navy and secondly, married Captain Robert Chadwick on 28 July 1713 at Mongeham, Kent. Robert Chadwick had been promoted to the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy in 1710, died in July 1719. Mary Rand had two daughters by him, Mary and Ursula, and died in 1742.

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