Sir James Palmer

Estimate

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

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Description

Sir James Palmer
Four nymphs in an Italianate landscape
signed lower right: J. Palmer
oil on panel, unframed

Provenance

Anonymous Sale, Sotheby's, London, 23 March 1949, lot 58;
Anonymous Sale, Bonhams, 7 December 2005, lot 27.

Literature

E. Waterhouse, The Dictionary of 16th and 17th Century British Painters, Suffolk 1988, p. 211, reproduced.

Catalogue Note

Sir James Palmer painted miniature copies after pictures in the Royal Collection, which he helped to form. Indeed according to Ellis Waterhouse the present work is a copy after a composition by Cornelis van Poelenburgh. Palmer also painted portrait miniatures of James I and members of the Court in a style derived from Isaac Oliver. A man of many talents, he was elected twice as an MP and became Chancellor of the Order of the Garter under Charles I.