John Riley

Portrait of Sir Henry Oxenden, 3rd Bt. (1643-1709), Governor of Bombay and President of the East India Company

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Lot Closed

April 6, 02:00 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from an English Private Collection

John Riley

London 1646 - 1691

Portrait of Sir Henry Oxenden, 3rd Bt. (1643-1709), Governor of Bombay and President of the East India Company

inscribed on the reverse of the original canvas: H.O 3^rd Bar^t / L^tGon^r. of / Bombay / nephew of / S^r G.O. / Gov^r of Bombay

later inscribed upper right: S^r. Henry Oxenden Baronet / 2^d Son of S^r. Henry Oxenden Bar:^t

oil on canvas, unlined, in a Sutherland frame

unframed: 126.4 x 102.6 cm.; 49¾ x 40⅜ in.

framed: 160 x 140.5 cm.; 63 x 55⅜ in.

By descent in the Oxenden family, Deane Park and Broome Park, Kent, to
Muriel Dixwell-Oxenden, Lady Capel Cure (1869-1968), Broome Park, Kent;
Her sale et al., London, Christie's, 20 November 1931, lot 85, to Meatyard;
The grandfather of the present owner;
Thence by descent.

Lady V. Manners, 'The Oxenden Collection, Part II', in The Connoisseur, vol. XLI, no. 163, March 1915, p. 129.