Live Auction 12582Interiors Including Flair: The Fleur Cowles Collection
English School, c. 1615
Lot 449 The Property of a Gentleman

English School, c. 1615

Portrait of Dorothy Danvers (1590-1660), half-length, in an embroidered white and red dress, with lace cuffs and ruff, pearl earrings and lace headdress, in a feigned oval

Closed23 November 2016

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English School, c. 1615
Portrait of Dorothy Danvers (1590-1660), half-length, in an embroidered white and red dress, with lace cuffs and ruff, pearl earrings and lace headdress, in a feigned oval
with identifying inscription 'Dorothy Daughter of Henry (Danvers) Earl of Danby and wife / to Sir Peter Osborn. Kt.' (along upper edge)
oil on panel
30 x 24 ½ in. (76.2 x 62.3 cm.)

Specialist note

Dorothy married Sir Peter Osborn (1584-1653) of Chicksands Priory, Bedfordshire and they had eight sons and four daughters. Their youngest daughter was Dorothy Osborne, Lady Temple (1627-1695), famous as a writer of letters and wife of Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet. Their epistolary courtship, of which only Osborn's side survives, has been published numerous times since their initial appearance in print in 1888.