The Pohl-Ströher Collection of Portrait Miniatures, Part III
The Pohl-Ströher Collection of Portrait Miniatures, Part III
JOHN HOSKINS | PORTRAIT OF SIR THOMAS PEYTON, 2ND BT. (1613-1684), 1648
Auction Closed
December 5, 07:06 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
JOHN HOSKINS
Wells, Somerset ? c. 1590 - 1665 London
PORTRAIT OF SIR THOMAS PEYTON, 2ND BT. (1613-1684), 1648
Watercolour and bodycolour on vellum, mounted on prepared card, gold frame, the verso engraved with a coat of arms;
signed with the artist's initials centre left: IH, inscribed lower right: AEt: 35:
55 by 47 mm.
Sale, London, Sotheby's, 9 June 1969, lot 69;
sale, London, Sotheby's, 22 February 1971, lot 26;
sale, London, Sotheby's, 9 February 1989, lot 303;
Robert Lane Bayne-Powell (d. 1994), Kent;
his sale, London, Sotheby's, 11 October 1994, lot 33
In 1623 the sitter inhertied his family's baronetcy upon the death of his father: Sir Samuel Peyton, 1st Bt. of Knowlton Court, Kent. Sir Thomas served as a member of parliament between 1640-1644 and later from 1661 to 1679. During the Civil War he fought for the King.