Old Master Paintings Day Auction
Old Master Paintings Day Auction
The Property of Sir Brooke Boothby, 15th Bt., removed from Fonmon Castle, Glamorgan
Gerard Soest
Portrait of a young gentleman, said to be Oliver Jones (c. 1654–1685)
Lot Closed
December 7, 10:42 AM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
The Property of Sir Brooke Boothby, 15th Bt., removed from Fonmon Castle, Glamorgan
Gerard Soest
possibly Soest circa 1600–1680/1 London
Portrait of a young gentleman, said to be Oliver Jones (c. 1654–1685), half-length, in a flamboyant pink costume with his hand resting on a hound
oil on canvas
unframed: 77 x 63.5 cm.; 30¼ x 25 in.
framed: 94.3 x 83 cm.; 37⅛ x 32⅝ in.
J. Steegman, A Survey of Portraits in Welsh Houses, vol. 2, Cardiff 1962, p. 93, no. 9, reproduced pl. 15 c (as anonymous, c. 1660);
A.D. Fraser Jenkins, 'The Paintings at Fonmon Castle', in S. Williams, Stewart Williams’ Glamorgan Historian, vol. 7, Glamorgan 1971, p. 62 (as Gerard Soest).
The sitter in this portrait is traditionally identified as Oliver Jones (c. 1654–1685), the heir of Colonel Philip Jones (1618–1674) (see Lot 46). Despite living a relatively short life for the period, Oliver is recorded to have married Mary Button and sired an heir, Robert Jones (d. 1715), who continued the family line.