LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

36.02 in. (91.50 cm.) (height) by 27.95 in. (71.00 cm.) (width)

Literature:

Catalogue of the pictures, the property of Henry Viscount Cornbury, 1750 ('Lord Hyde's Dressing Room..MR SOLICITOR-GENERAL MURRAY'); Lady T. Lewis, Lives of the Friends and Contemporaries of Lord Chancellor Clarendon.., London, 1852, vol. III, p. 257, no. 113; D. Piper and G. Wolstenholme, Royal College of Physicians, London, Portraits, London 1964, pp. 28-29, no. 113; R. Gibson, Catalogue of Portraits in the Collection of the Earl of Clarendon, London, 1977, pp. 87-89, no. 97; J. Ingamells, Mid-Georgian Portraits, London, 2004, p. 330.

Provenance:

Commissioned in 1738 by Henry Hyde, Viscount Cornbury and 5th Baron Hyde of Hindon who died without issue; by descent to his niece, Charlotte (d.1790), eldest daughter of William Capel, 3rd Earl of Essex (1697-1743), who married Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1709-1786), of the second creation; thence by descent to the present owner.