Lot 202: Attributed to Joseph Highmore , London 1692-1780 Canterbury Portrait of Edmund Pytts (1696-1753), three-quarter length, standing in a landscape oil on canvas, unframed, together with a Portrait of Simon Kerrich (1697-1748), by John Theodore Heins

inscribed lower right: Edmd. Pytts Esqr./ MP for Worcestershire 1741/ Died 1753, and further inscribed on a label on the reverse: Edmund Pytts Esqre. oil on canvas, unframed, together with a Portrait of Simon Kerrich (1697-1748), by John Theodore Heins (1697-1756), half-length, in a feigned oval, signed lower right: Heins, Fec: 1740. Quantity: 2

measurements note 127 by 100 cm., 50 by 39½ in.; 75 by 62 cm., 29½ by 24½ in.

Edmund Pytts was member of Parliament for Worcestershire in 1741. In 1726 he married firstly Susanna, daughter of Admiral Collett and in 1752 married secondly Anne, Countess of Coventry. He died aged 57 in 1753 and was buried at Holt Castle.