Live Auction 5962Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
ATTRIBUTED TO MARY BEALE (BRITISH, 1633-1699)
Lot 373

ATTRIBUTED TO MARY BEALE (BRITISH, 1633-1699)

Closed28 November 2012

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ATTRIBUTED TO MARY BEALE (BRITISH, 1633-1699)
A young lady called Lady Lonsdale, in loose blue off-the-shoulders dress over white shift, long curling fair hair
on vellum laid down on card
oval, 2¾ in. (70 mm.) high, stained ivory mount within later turned wood frame

Pierre de Regaini Collection, Paris.
Christie's, London, 11 May 1994, lot 6 (as a Lady by Charles Beale).

Specialist note

A pencil inscription on the ebony reverse reads 'wife of John lord Lonsdale. bought from Byram a [...] of Lo[...] ...'.
Lady Katherine Thynne (d. bef. 1713), daughter of Sir Henry Frederick Thynne, 1st Baronet, married the British politician John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale, PC, FRS (1655-1700), known as Sir John Lowther, 2nd Baronet, on 3 December 1673.
For another miniature of a member of the Lonsdale family, James Lowther, 1st Earl Lonsdale, see lot 395.