Lot 127: JOHN BAPTIST CLOSTERMAN FL.1690-1713

PORTRAIT OF RICHARD JONES (D.1737)

measurements note
237 by 147 cm., 93¼ by 58 in.

full length, standing, wearing brown robes

oil on canvas

PROVENANCE

By descent from the sitter to his son, William Jones of Ramsbury Manor;
By descent to Elizabeth, his daughter, who married Francis Burdett;
By descent to Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Bt, their son;
By descent to Sir Francis Burdett, 7th Bt., Ramsbury Manor, by whose executors sold, Sotheby's, 2nd December 1953, lot 55 bt. Wiggins (as by J. Closterman)

LITERATURE

Malcolm Rogers, 'John and John Baptist Closterman: A Catalogue of their Works', Walpole Society, Vol XLIX, 1983, no.B6, p.274

NOTE

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