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Sir Henry Raeburn
Head and shoulders portrait in a white dress of Mary Morrison, wife of Robert William Duff of Fetteresso and Culter.
Painted circa 1799


Oil painting on canvas 30 x 25 inches, and contained in its period carved and gilded frame.

Provenance: Sale, 1934, bt. Partridge; Private Collection California until present

Exhibited, Birmingham, Special Loan Exhibition, 1903, number 58

Literature: James Greig, “Raeburn” (1911) page 43;
Dr. David Mackie, “Complete Catalogue of Raeburm, Life and Art”, unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, Edinburgh and Yale, 1994, catalogue number 231, pp.341-2.

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John Vanderbank 1694-1739
Three quarter length portrait of Martin Folkes DCL, PRS, PSA. (1690-1754)
Painted circa 1739

Oil painting on canvas 50 x 40 inches, and contained within its original carved and giltwood frame

Signed and indistinctly dated 173(9 ?) on the base of the column, and inscribed (in a later 18th century hand): MARTIN FOLKES ESQ., P.R. & A.S.. OBIIT 1754 AE 63

Provenance: by descent from the sitter with the family of the folkes Baronets at Hillington Hall in Norfolk, (who in recent years lent it to Sir Roy Harrod) until acquired by us.

Literature: cf. Portraits in Norfolk Houses (Duleep Singh, Vol. I, page 245 et seq., sub Hillington Hall)
Early Georgian Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery (John Kerslake: HMSO, 1977, page 77, and 77n, sub “Iconography” of Martin Folkes)

The painting has remained in an exceptional state of preservation in its original frame and on its original strainer, and has apparently never previously been cleaned, lined or undergone conservation.

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NATHANIEL HONE RA 1718-1784
Portrait of a young boy dressed in a brown coat with a blue waistcoat
Painted circa 1770

Oil on canvas size 30 x 25in (76.2 x 63.5cm) in a fine Irish Georgian giltwood frame. Framed size: 36 ¾ x 32in (93.4 x 81.3cm)

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Artist Unknown: English School
Full length portrait of a little boy with his pet dog, standing by a table with a velvet red tablecloth. He is dressed in a richly embroidered surcoat and doublet, and holds a toy lance in his right hand and a paper in his left.
Painted circa 1630

Inscribed with the sitter’s age (21 months) and dated 1630

Oil painting on oak canvas 45 x 33.5 inches (60 x 48 inches including frame)

Provenance: According to old labels on the reverse, from Haddam Castle. Also inscribed “Owner of this picture is Rev WCR Bedford, Cotswold, Kenilworth Rd, Leamington Spa. This picture was formerly in the Collection of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe the Edinburgh Antiquary a friend of Walter Scott”

Literature: Stephanie Hoppen, Picture Perfect, Published by Jacqui Small, London
2004, with full-page colour illustration, p. 51


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FRANCIS COTES R.A 1726 - 1770
Portrait of a lady in a blue dress trimmed with fur
Painted in 1765

Oil painting on canvas 30 x 25 inches (76 x 64cm).

Contained in a carved and gilded Georgian swept frame

Signed and dated 1765

Provenance: .............(sale) Christies, 27th June 1980 (lot 133) £2,2000 to Arnold Machin O.B.E, R.A.(30 September 1911 – 9 March 1999); his son, Francis (1949-2007)


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