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Lot 109
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Cornelius Jonson 1593-1661

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Cornelius Jonson
  • Portrait of Magdalene Digby
  • oil on canvas, in a fine carved wood frame
three-quarter length, standing, wearing a black dress with black and white sleeves and holding a fan

Provenance

By descent from Edward Williams whose daughter, Jane, married William Wynne of Wern

Literature

Listed in a manuscript catalogue of the pictures at Peniarth, 1905 (traditionally as Magdalene Digby);
John Steegman, A Survey of Portraits in Welsh Houses, 1957, Vol. I, p.236, no.7

Catalogue Note

Magdalene Digby was the daughter of Everard Digby and his wife Mary Neave.  Her brother, Sir Everard Digby, was executed in 1606 for complicity in the Gunpowder Plot.  She later became a nun in the Benedictine Order in Brussels.