Live Auction 8014The Cowdray Sale: Works of Art from Cowdray Park and Dunecht House, At Cowdray Park, West Sussex
Charles D'Agar (Paris 1669-1723 London)
Lot 300

Charles D'Agar (Paris 1669-1723 London)

Double portrait of Lady Henrietta and Lady Mary Godolphin, daughters of Francis, 2nd Earl of Godolphin, full-length, the former standing in classical dress with a pink cloak, holding a parrot and a bunch of grapes, the latter seated in a white dress with blue cloak, in a garden, classical buildings beyond

Closed15 September 2011

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Charles D'Agar (Paris 1669-1723 London)
Double portrait of Lady Henrietta and Lady Mary Godolphin, daughters of Francis, 2nd Earl of Godolphin, full-length, the former standing in classical dress with a pink cloak, holding a parrot and a bunch of grapes, the latter seated in a white dress with blue cloak, in a garden, classical buildings beyond
with identifying inscription 'CHILDREN of FRANCIS 2d EARL of GODOLPHIN.' (upper left)
oil on canvas
53 3/8 x 46½ in. (135.5 x 118 cm)
in an early 18th century panel frame

By inheritance through Lady Mary Godolphin to the Dukes of Leeds, Hornby Castle, Yorkshire.
Acquired from Century House Galleries, in 1931, by Harold Pearson, 2nd Viscount Cowdray.

Specialist note

The sitters were the daughters of Francis, 2nd Earl of Godolphin (1678-1766), and his wife Lady Henrietta Churchill (1681-1722), daughter of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. Henrietta (d. 1776) married the statesman and Prime Minister Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle. Like her husband she was a devoted Whig. Her younger sister Mary, who was actually the illegitimate child of the famous playwright, William Congreve, was raised by the 2nd Earl of Godolphin as his own and was his eventual sole heiress, marrying Thomas Osborne, 4th Duke of Leeds in 1740.