Live Auction 7863Old Master & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings & Watercolours Day
Attributed to Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1659-1743 London)
Lot 163 The Property of the 10th Duke of Leeds Will Trust.

Attributed to Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1659-1743 London)

Portrait of Peregrine Osborne, 3rd Duke of Leeds (1691-1731), full-length, in coronation robes

Closed7 July 2010

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GBP 15,000

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Attributed to Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1659-1743 London)
Portrait of Peregrine Osborne, 3rd Duke of Leeds (1691-1731), full-length, in coronation robes
oil on canvas
94½ x 57¼ in. (241.3 x 144.8 cm.)
in a parcel-gilt frame carved with rocaille ornament surmounted by a Viscount's coronet above the coat-of-arms of Osborne quartering Hewett, Hyde and another.

Commissioned by the sitter, and by descent in the family.

Specialist note

The sitter, who was the grandson of Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds (1632-1712), one of the leading political figures in the reign of King Charles II, succeeded his father as the 3rd Duke of Leeds in 1729. He married first Elizabeth Harley, daughter of Robert, 1st Earl of Oxford, by whom he had a son Thomas, who succeeded him as the 4th Duke of Leeds; secondly Lady Anne Seymour, daughter of Charles, 6th Duke of Somerset; and thirdly Juliana Hele, daughter and co-heir of Roger Hele, of Holwell, Devonshire.