Live Auction 8012Lyons Demesne Works of Art from The Collection of The Late Dr. Tony Ryan
John Wollaston (c. 1672-1749)
Lot 105

John Wollaston (c. 1672-1749)

Portrait of Philip Bartholomew (1690-1729), three-quarter-length, in a red coat and white stock, standing in a landscape, pointing to a church beyond

Closed14 July 2011

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GBP 2,750

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John Wollaston (c. 1672-1749)
Portrait of Philip Bartholomew (1690-1729), three-quarter-length, in a red coat and white stock, standing in a landscape, pointing to a church beyond
inscribed 'Philip Bartholomew. Born 1690_Died 1729.' (upper right)
oil on canvas
50¼ x 41 in. (127.8 x 104.1 cm.)

Probably Philip Bartholomew (d. 1757), Oxon Hoath, Hadlow, Kent and by descent to
William Geary (d. 1825), son of Admiral Sir Francis Geary (d. 1796) and Mary Bartholomew and by descent in the family until sold with the house in 1945 to
Lord Falmouth, until sold with the house in 1952 to
The late Henry Bayne-Powell; sold Christie's South Kensington house sale, 22 September 1999, lot 555 (part).

Specialist note

Oxon Hoath was owned by Sir John Culpepper in the reign of Edward III. By the early 18th century it was owned by the Miller family. On the death of Sir Borlase Miller in 1714, the house was inherited by his sister Elizabeth, wife of Leonard Bartholomew (d. 1720). The house remained in the ownership of the Bartholomew family until the death of the latter's grandson Philip Bartholomew in 1757. Sir William Geary, who inherited it from Philip Bartholomew, was the second son of Francis Geary of Polesden Lacey, Surrey.