John Michael Wright (1617 - 1694) A portrait of Lady Herries...

Hammer

£5,000

John Michael Wright (1617 - 1694)
A portrait of Lady Herries
Oil on canvas

Provenance:
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's Olympia, 30 November 2005, lot 57 (as Follower of Robert Walker);
Philip Mould & Company.

Note:
The sitter has traditionally been identified, according to an inscription on the stretcher, as ‘Lady Herries’. She is possibly Lady Lucy Douglas, daughter of William Douglas, 1st Marquess of Douglas and wife of Robert Maxwell, 4th Earl of Nithsdale (1628–83), who was known by the subsidiary title of Lord Herries until 1677, when he inherited the Earldom. 

Dimensions:
(Canvas) 50.8 in. (H) x 42.8 in. (W)
(Frame) 57.5 in. (H) x 49.25 in. (W)