Live Auction 7201Old Masters & British Paintings
Circle of Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1657-1743 London)
Lot 68

Circle of Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1657-1743 London)

Portrait of Anne Bethell, three-quarter-length, in a blue dress, seated in a landscape, white flowers in her right hand

Closed24 October 2012

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GBP 5,625

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Circle of Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1657-1743 London)
Portrait of Anne Bethell, three-quarter-length, in a blue dress, seated in a landscape, white flowers in her right hand
oil on canvas, unlined
49½ x 40¼ in. (125.6 x 108.2 cm.)

The Trustees of Lady Grant & Sir Anthony M. L. Cope Bt.; Sotheby's, London, 10 May 1967, lot 166 as 'KNELLER' (£90 to De Cayres).

Specialist note

Anne Bethell was the daughter of Sir John Cope (d. 1749), 6th Bt., M.P., of Bramshill, Hants and Hanwell, Oxon. She married Hugh Bethell of Rise and Watton Abbey (d. 1752). She had two sons, Hugh (1727-1772) who became and M.P. for Beverley, and William (d. 1799).