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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 4, 2024 | Christie's | London | Old Masters Part II: Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings and Watercolours | 135 | $****** - ****** | Portrait of William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford (1616-1700), full-length, in garter robes |
paintings
236.2 x 148.9 cm (93 x 58.63 in)
oil on canvas, unlined, in a frame of foliate carved and pierced giltwood, applied to an ebonised subframe
signed and dated "G. Kneller fe 1692" (lower left); with identifying inscription "William Rufsell the first / Duke of Bedford of that name" (lower left)
(Presumably) by descent to the sitter"s nephew,
Admiral Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford (1657-1627), and by inheritance to his great-niece,
Letitia Tipping (1699-1779), wife of Samuel Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys (1695-1770), and by descent to their son,
Edwin Sandys, 2nd Baron Sandys (1726-1797), and by inheritance to his niece,
Mary, Marchioness of Downshire and 1st Baroness Sandys (1764-1836), and by descent to her second son,
Lieutenant-General Arthur Hill, 2nd Baron Sandys (1792-1860), and by inheritance to his younger brother,
Arthur Marcus Sandys, 3rd Baron Sandys (1798-1863), and by descent in the family to,
Richard Hill, 7th Baron Sandys (1931-2013), Ombersley Court, Worcestershire.
The Sandys Trust ["Ombersley Court: The Collection of Lord and Lady Sandys"]; their sale, Christie"s, London, 29 November 2023, lot 58, where acquired by the present owner.
Birmingham, City Museum and Art Gallery, Commemorative Exhibition of the Art Treasures of the Midlands , 1934, no. 466, lent by Lord Sandys.
Ombersley Court Inventory , c. 1750-1775, Ombersley MS., where listed in the Salon Room.
T.R. Nash, Collections for the History of Worcestershire , London, 1781-2, II, p. 224.
J. Grego, Inventory of Pictures: Portraits, Paintings, etc., Ombersley MS., 1905, where listed in the Grand Saloon.
(Presumably) G. Scott Thomson, Life in a Noble Household 1641-1700 , New York, 1937, p. 297, which records "January 1693.-Receieved from the right / honourable Earld of Bedford forty pounds due / in full for his lordship"s picture in length by me, / G. KNELLER / £40 0 0.".
ONM / 1 / 2 / 7, journal entry for a visit to Ombersley Court, 25 August 1950, Oliver Millar Archive, Paul Mellon Centre, London, p. 25.
A. Oswald, "Ombersley Court, Worcestershire - I", Country Life , 2 January 1953, pp. 35 and 37, pl. 3.
Ombersley Court Inventory , June 1963, annotated Ombersley MS., where listed in the Saloon.
J. Douglas Stewart, Sir Godfrey Kneller and the English Baroque Portrait , Oxford, 1983, pp. 94 and 143, no. 82, pl. 43b.
Ombersley Court Catalogue of Pictures , undated, Ombersley MS., p. 22, where listed in the Saloon.
SIR GODFREY KNELLER (LÜBECK 1646-1723 LONDON)
Portrait of William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford (1616-1700), full-length, in garter robes
signed and dated "G. Kneller fe 1692" (lower left)
oil on canvas, unlined
93 x 58 5/8 in. (236 x 149.1 cm.)
with identifying inscription "William Rufsell the first / Duke of Bedford of that name" (lower left)
in a frame of foliate carved and pierced giltwood, applied to an ebonised subframe
