Portrait of a young man, possibly Anthony Henley, son of Sir Robert Henley, of The Grange, Hampshire, full-length, in classical dress carrying a quiver and bow, in a landscape with a coastal town beyond

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John Michael Wright (1617-1694)
Portrait of a young man, possibly Anthony Henley, son of Sir Robert Henley, of The Grange, Hampshire, full-length, in classical dress carrying a quiver and bow, in a landscape with a coastal town beyond
oil on canvas
69 x 43in. (175 x 109 cm.)

Provenance

Possibly by descent to Robert Henley, Earl of Northington, second son of Anthony Henley, and by inheritance to his cousins, the Henley family of Leigh House, Chard and by descent to Florence Hoste Henley, who married Joseph Torbock of Crossrigg Hall, and by descent;
Sotheby's, Crossrigg Hall, 13 September 1994, lot 339.

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Lot Essay

The sitter may be Anthony, eldest son of Sir Robert Henley, of The Grange, Northington, Hampshire, and his first wife, Catherine, daughter of Sir Anthony Hungerford of Blackbourton, Oxfordshire. Anthony Henley was elected for Andover as a Whig M.P. in 1698 and died in 1711. His son, Anthony, inherited the manors of Northington and Swarraton, known as The Grange. It is believed that the portrait passed to his second son, Sir Robert Henley, created Earl of Northington in 1764. The Grange was sold to the Barings on the death of the 2nd Lord Northington in 1786, and the pictures passed to their Henley cousins at Leigh House. The pictures then passed to the Torbocks of Crossrigg Hall, Westmoreland.

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