Lot 492: Attributed to Willem Wissing BRITISH 1656-168

Attributed to Willem Wissing
BRITISH 1656-1687
Portrait of a Lady, said to be Jane Ashburnham (1604-1672)
oil on canvas 232 by 141cm

PROVENANCE
By descent from the sitter until sold at Sotheby's, London, 15 July 1953, lot 95
Sotheby's, London, British Paintings 1500-1850 , Wednesday 9 July 1997, lot 18
Full length, standing, wearing a brown dress with blue robes.
The Hon. Jane Boteler, later Jane Ashburnham, was daughter of John, 1st Lord Boteler of Bramfield and his wife Elizabeth, half sister of
George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. In 1621 she married James Ley, 1st Earl of Marborough as his third wife. After his death in 1629,
and described as 'young, beautiful, childless and rich', she married William Ashburnham, Cofferer of the Household to Charles I and
Charles II.