Live Auction 1187A Life's Devotion: The Collection of the Late Mrs T.S. Eliot
JOHN HOSKINS (BRITISH, C. 1590-1655)
Lot 100

JOHN HOSKINS (BRITISH, C. 1590-1655)

Closed20 November 2013

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JOHN HOSKINS (BRITISH, C. 1590-1655)
A young lady traditionally called Helen, Viscountess Tarras, in blue dress with white chemise, pearl necklace, curled auburn hair
signed in gold with initials and dated '1655 / iH.' (mid-right)
on vellum
oval, 2.3/8 in. (60 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame with spiral cresting

John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1904) Collection, New York; Christie's, London, 25 June 1935, lot 144, portrait of a Lady (as 'said to be Helen, Countess of Tarras, daughter of Thomas Hepburn of Hadington', 60 gns. to A. Walker).
Christie's, London, 9 November 1994, lot 7.