Live Auction 5858Old Masters & 19th Century Works of Art
Christie’s roundel
Lot 62 THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE MICHAEL COPEMAN (LOTS 61 AND 62)

Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646-1723 London)

Portrait of Charlotte Clayton (d.1742), wife of William Clayton, 1st Baron Sundon of Ardagh (1671-1752), three-quarter-length, in a blue dress, a landscape beyond

Closed10 July 2009

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Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646-1723 London)
Portrait of Charlotte Clayton (d.1742), wife of William Clayton, 1st Baron Sundon of Ardagh (1671-1752), three-quarter-length, in a blue dress, a landscape beyond
inscribed 'Charlott [sic.] 2nd Daughter of John Dive Esq./Woman of the Bed Chamber to her/Majesty Queen Caroline, Wife to William Clayton of Sundon in the County of/Bedford Esq. one of the Right Honorable/the Lords Commoners of the Treasury.' (centre left); and with the conjoined coat-of-arms of the Clayton and Dive families (lower right)
oil on canvas
49¼ x 40 in. (125.2 x 101.6 cm.)
in an English 18th Century carved, pierced and gilded frame

by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

Charlotte Clayton, née Dyve, wife of William Clayton (see lot 61), was the grand-daughter of Sir Lewis Dyve of Bromham, Bedfordshire, and daughter of his youngest son, John, and his wife Frances, third daughter of Sir Robert Wolseley of Wolseley. On the accession of George I in 1714, Charlotte Clayton was appointed a lady of the bedchamber to Queen Caroline, Princess of Wales, to whom she became a close friend and confidante over the years.