Royal & Noble Including Jewels from an Important Noble Collection
Royal & Noble Including Jewels from an Important Noble Collection
The Property of Sir Brooke Boothby, 15th Bt., removed from Fonmon Castle, Glamorgan
Reverend Matthew William Peters, R.A.
Portrait of Miss Maria Boothby (1758–1805), daughter of Sir Brooke Boothby, 5th Bt. (1710–1789)
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January 17, 03:54 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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The Property of Sir Brooke Boothby, 15th Bt., removed from Fonmon Castle, Glamorgan
Reverend Matthew William Peters, R.A.
Isle of Wight 1742–1814 Kent
Portrait of Miss Maria Boothby (1758–1805), daughter of Sir Brooke Boothby, 5th Bt. (1710–1789)
oil on canvas
unframed: 76.7 x 63.6 cm.; 30¼ x 25 in.
framed: 93.9 x 81 cm.; 37 x 31⅞ in.
By descent in the Boothby family at Fonmon Castle, Glamorgan, to the present owner.
A. Oswald, 'Fonmon Castle, Glamorgan – III: Home of Sir Seymour Boothby, Bt., and Lady Boothby', Country Life, vol. 105, no. 2724, 1 April 1949, p. 737, reproduced;
J. Steegman, A Survey of Portraits in Welsh Houses, 2 vols, Cardiff 1962, vol. II, p. 96, no. 33, reproduced pl. 17, no. C (as attributed to Reverend Matthew William Peters, R.A.);
A.D. Fraser Jenkins, 'The Paintings at Fonmon Castle', in S. Williams, Stewart Williams’ Glamorgan Historian, vol. 7, Glamorgan 1971, pp. 68–69, reproduced (as probably by Reverend Matthew William Peters, R.A.).