Lot 2: CIRCLE OF GEORGE JAMESONE (SCOTTISH, 1586-1644)

CIRCLE OF GEORGE JAMESONE (SCOTTISH, 1586-1644)
Portrait of a lady, bust-length, in mourning dress and cap, with a lace collar and pearl pendant earring and bejewelled necklace at her corsage
with inscribed numerals '45' (lower left)
oil on canvas
23¾ x 18 in. (60.5 x 45.7 cm.)

Aberdeen Archaeological Exhibition, 1859.

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The sitter of the present portrait is uncertain, though a later label to the reverse suggests 'Anne Marchioness Hamilton'. A known portrait of Lady Anne Cunningham, Marchioness of Hamilton (d.1647), is in the Collection of Lennoxlove House, East Lothian.