3/4 length portrait.

He stands, holding a glove in his right hand with a landscape of fields behind. Background left floats an open book with inscription 'semel et semper'. Background right a couple is seen in a dark forest.

Provenance

By descent through the Braddyll family. Inherited by Neeld family of Grittleton House, Chippenham and Kelston Park, Bath, Capt L W Neeld sale Christie's, 2 May 1958, lot 59, bt Jessup, owned privately since then, Philip Mould of Histprical Portraits


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