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English School, 1602
Lot 230 THE PROPERTY OF A LADY (LOTS 230 & 240)

English School, 1602

Portrait of Percival Hart (1599-1616), aged 3, full-length, in an embroidered white dress with a lace collar and cuffs, holding a branch of red berries

Closed3 July 2013

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GBP 13,750

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English School, 1602
Portrait of Percival Hart (1599-1616), aged 3, full-length, in an embroidered white dress with a lace collar and cuffs, holding a branch of red berries
inscribed 'PERCIVALL·HART·SECOND SONNE· OF·SF·PERCIVALL· HART· KNIGHT· (upper left) and inscribed and dated 'ÆTATIS SUÆ 3 1602 (upper right)
oil on canvas
40 x 27 in. (101.5 x 68.5 cm.)

F.G.H. Storey; Sotheby's, London, 22 May 1968, lot 12, as 'Peake' (1,000 gns. to Lomas).

Specialist note

The son of Sir Percival Hart of Lullingstone, Kent, M.P., and his second wife, Jane, daughter of Sir Edward Stanhope, of Grimston, Yorkshire, M.P., the sitter was baptised on 22 July 1599 at Lullingstone and buried there on 15 November 1616. His great-grandfather and namesake, who died in 1580, was chief sewer and knight harbinger to four successive monarchs.