Royal & Noble
Royal & Noble
Follower of Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt.
Portrait of Mary of Modena (1658–1718), wife of James, Duke of York, later James II
Lot Closed
January 20, 03:19 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Follower of Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt.
Portrait of Mary of Modena (1658–1718), wife of James, Duke of York, later James II
inscribed with inventory number lower left: 232
oil on canvas, in a painted oval
unframed: 77 x 64.7 cm.; 30⅜ x 25½ in.
framed: 105 x 92.5 cm.; 41⅜ x 36⅜ in.
Certainly in the collection of John William Robert Kerr, 7th Marquess of Lothian (1794–1841), by 1833, when recorded in the inventory;
Thence by descent.
Newbattle Abbey inventory, May 1878, no. 232 (Library Passage);
Monteviot House inventory, 14 July 1989, no. 232 (as by Willem Wissing, South West Bedroom no. 1).
A period copy after the three-quarter length portrait by Kneller in the National Trust collection at Chirk Castle, Wrexham.1 A full-length version is recorded in the Heinz Archive, London, as an autograph work by Kneller, formerly in the collection of Sir Eldred Hitchcock. The portrait was also widely disseminated in prints by the engraver John Smith.
1. Inv. no. NT 1171160; see J. Ingamells, Later Stuart Portraits 1685-1714, London, 2009, p. 178, reproduced.