Lot 45: WILLIAM LARKIN (LONDON CIRCA 1580-1619) Portrait of Thomas Pope, later 3rd Earl of Do

WILLIAM LARKIN (LONDON CIRCA 1580-1619) Portrait of Thomas Pope, later 3rd Earl of Downe, bust-length, in a white tunic embroidered with gold and a yellow lace collar oil on panel 56.8 x 43.7cm (22 3/8 x 17 3/16in).

Provenance: The sitter, Thomas Pope, 3rd Earl of Downe (1598-1668), by descent to Thomas Pope, 4th Earl of Downe, upon whose death in May 1668 the picture passed by inheritance to His sister, Frances Pope, who married Francis North (1637-1685), later 1st Baron Guilford, and settled at Wroxton Abbey, by descent to their son Francis North, 2nd Baron Guilford (1673-1729), by descent to his son Francis North, 3rd Baron Guilford and 1st Earl of Guilford (1704-1790), by descent to his son, Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford (1732-1792), who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain, from 1770 to 1782, by descent to his son George Augustus North, 3rd Earl of Guilford (1757-1802), who died without male issue, by inheritance, at Wroxton, to his second daughter Susan North (1797-1884), who married John Doyle, later North, and was created 10th Baroness North in 1841, by descent to their son William North, 11th Baron North (1836-1932) Sold by order of Lord North’s Trustees, Wroxton Abbey sale, on the premises, 24 May 1933, lot 685, ill. (as by Isaac Oliver), where purchased by the present owner’s family