£25,200
Home & Heritage: Property from Three Historic Houses | 12346
Auction: Select Property from An Historic House - 27th March 2024 at 10am
Feigned oval, oil on cradled panel
55cm x 44cm (21.75in x 7.25in)
Christie's New York, 26 January 2005, lot 288, sold for $36,000 from the Estate of Lord Robert D. L. Gardiner
Appleby Castle, Cumbria
Note: Lion Gardiner (1599-1663), an antecedent of Lord Robert Gardiner, was an English engineer and colonist who founded the first English settlement in New York acquiring land on eastern Long Island courtesy of King Charles I. As a loyal supporter of the King it is possible the portrait was acquired at this time and passed down through the family. King Charles I was a visitor to Wilton House, the home of Philip Herbert and Lady Clifford.
Literature: Jessica Malay, Anne Clifford's Autobiographical Writing, 2018, where illustrated as frontispiece