Lot 21: JOHN RILEY | Portrait of Jemima Crewe, later Duchess of Kent (d. 1728), three-quarter length, in a grey dress, leaning on a sculpted pedestal

oil on canvas

118.1 by 99.1 cm.; 46 1/2  by 39 in.

oil on canvas 

Offered in a gesso and gilt carved wood frame. The canvas has been lined and the surface is somewhat flat. There is a thick layer of dirt and discoloured varnish overall. There a small number of scattered extant minor losses where the paint has had a history of flaking. Old retouchings can be seen in the flesh tones of sitter's neck. Examination under ultra violet light shows several campaigns of restoration. Broad areas of overpaint constitute the early restoration and the later is consists of smaller retouching to losses from flaking.
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Auberon Thomas Herbert, 9th Baron Lucas of Crudwell and 5th Lord Dingwall (1876 - 1916);
By inheritance to his sister, Nan Ino Cooper, 10th Baroness Lucas of Crudwell and 6th Lady Dingwall (1880 - 1958), Wrest Park, Ampthill, Bedfordshire;
Her sale, London, Christie's, 16 November 1917, lot 57 (as J. Huysmans), for £199-10s.