LOT 23 Portrait of Elizabeth Jones, Countess of Kildare, as a shepherdess, three-quarter-length, seated before a landscape Studio of Willem Wissing(Amsterdam 1656-1687 Burghley)
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125.6 x 101.8cm (49 7/16 x 40 1/16in).
Studio of Willem Wissing (Amsterdam 1656-1687 Burghley)
Portrait of Elizabeth Jones, Countess of Kildare, as a shepherdess, three-quarter-length, seated before a landscape bears inscription 'Mary Countss/ of Kildare' (lower left)oil on canvas125.6 x 101.8cm (49 7/16 x 40 1/16in).
|ProvenanceRichard Plantagenet Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, (1797-1861), 2nd Duke of Buckingham & Chandos, and thence by descent to the present ownerA version of the present lot, with differences to the costume, which can be dated to circa 1684, is in The Mellon Collection, Yale Center for British Art, USA. Elizabeth Jones, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Richard Jones (who was created Earl of Ranelagh by William III), was one of the celebrated beauties of the Restoration court. In the late 1670s she was rumoured to be the mistress of Charles II. She married the Earl of Kildare in 1684. The subject, bust length, was engraved in mezzotint in 1686 by John Smith.
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