Sir Godfrey Kneller Bt. (1646-1723)

Sir Godfrey Kneller Bt. (1646-1723)

Portrait of Lady Anne Walpole (1657-1722), three-quarter-length, wearing a gold dress and blue cloak, seated in a wooded landscape

Oil on canvas

127.1 x 103.3cm; 50 x 40½in

Provenance:

The Dukes of Leeds, Hornby Castle, and by descent to the previous owner;

By whom sold, Christie's, London, British Pictures, 14 November 1997, lot 8

Literature:

Historical and Descriptive Catalogue of Pictures Belonging to His Grace the Duke of Leeds (1902), no.79., in the first oak parlour, Hornby Castle

The sitter was the daughter of Sir Thomas, 1st Duke of Leeds, Lord High Treasurer of England, and his wife Bridget, daughter of Montague Bertie, Earl of Lindsey, Lord Great Chamberlain of England. She married, firstly, Robert Coke of Holkham and later Horatio Walpole.