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
Welsh School, circa 1700
Portrait of the two children of Mr and Mrs Oliver Jones, full-length, one wearing blue, the other red, holding a bow and a spear
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The Property of Sir Brooke Boothby, 15th Bt., removed from Fonmon Castle, Glamorgan
Welsh School, circa 1700
Portrait of the two children of Mr and Mrs Oliver Jones, full-length, one wearing blue, the other red, holding a bow and a spear
oil on canvas
unframed: 126.2 x 102 cm.; 49¾ x 40⅛ in.
framed: 130.5 x 107.4 cm.; 51⅜ x 42¼ in.
Probably by descent in the Jones family, Fonmon Castle, Glamorgan;
Thence by descent in the Boothby family at Fonmon Castle, Glamorgan, to the present owner.
J. Steegman, A Survey of Portraits in Welsh Houses, 2 vols, Cardiff 1962, vol. II, p. 94, no. 15 (as Anonymous, c. 1700, with one son identified as probably Robert Jones I).
The Jones family were connected to the Boothby family by way of the marriage of Clara Valpy (1877–1869), the daughter of Edith Alicia Jones and Robert Arthur Valpy (1844–1894), to Sir Seymour Boothby (1866–1951).