Old Masters, British & European Paintings - 4th September 2024

Lot 792

English School 17th/18th Century

Estimate £1,500 - £2,500 | Hammer £2142

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Description

English School 17th/18th Century
Portrait of Frances Devereux (née Howard), Countess of Essex, later Countess of Somerset, full-length, wearing a red dress, lace bonnet and ruff and pearl necklace
Inscribed FRANCES HOWARD COUNTESS OF ESSEX (along upper edge)
Oil on panel
45.7 x 27.5cm; 18 x 10¾in

Provenance:
Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, Old Masters, British & European Paintings, 7 March 2018, lot 317