CIRCILE OF JOHN CLOSTERMAN (GERMAN 1660-1711)

CIRCILE OF JOHN CLOSTERMAN (GERMAN 1660-1711)
Portrait of Francis Wyse wearing a red coat and brown cloak with a parrot, and his sister Catherine wearing a blue dress with a lamb, full-length by a fountain
Oil on canvas
167.8 x 111.5cm; 66 x 44in

Provenance

The contents of The Grange, Wendover.

Sotheby's, London, The Irish Sale, 18 May 2000, lot 63.

Catalogue Note

This double portrait depicts two members of the important Irish Wyse family of Waterford, Ireland. The family descends from Sir Andrew Wyse who entered Ireland in 1171. The family's current Waterford seat was bulit by Sir Thomas Wyse in the 19th century to designs by A. W. N. Pugin, replacing an earlier building on a different site.