CIRCLE OF WILLEM WISSING

CIRCLE OF WILLEM WISSING

(DUTCH 1656-1687)

Portrait of Sir Robert Barkham, 2nd Bt, three-quarter length, wearing armour with an encampment in the distance

Inscribed by a later hand Robt: Son of Sr/Robt: Barkham of//Lincolnshire. (lower left)

Oil on canvas

126.5 x 97.8cm

Provenance

Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.

Catalogue Note

Sir Robert Barkham 2nd Bt (1657-1700) married Hester Jeffrey, the daughter and sole heiress of Thomas Jeffrey, which gave him property at Earls Croome (Worcestershire) and Wigtoft (Lincolnshire). However, the family chose to live at Great Rollright in Oxfordshire.