Live Auction 17196Old Masters Day Sale
Jacob Ferdinand Voet (Antwerp 1639-1700 Paris)
Lot 235 SOLD BY ORDER OF THE EXECUTORS OF GEORGE PINTO (LOTS 196, 235 AND 243)

Jacob Ferdinand Voet (Antwerp 1639-1700 Paris)

Portrait of John Crewe (d. 1752), of Crewe Hall, Cheshire, half-length, in an organza cloak and lace cravat

Closed5 July 2019

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Jacob Ferdinand Voet (Antwerp 1639-1700 Paris)
Portrait of John Crewe (d. 1752), of Crewe Hall, Cheshire, half-length, in an organza cloak and lace cravat
oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm.)

Commissioned from the artist by the sitter, and by descent in the family to,
Colin Crewe, Nether Hall, Old Newton, Stowmarket; Christie's, London, 20 November 1992, lot 3, where acquired by George Pinto (1929-2018).

Specialist note

The present portrait, passed down through the descendents of the Crewe family until their 1992 sale, almost certainly depicts John Offley Crewe, eldest son of John Offley of Madely Manor, Staffordshire, and Anna Crewe of Crewe Hall. The sitter took the name Crew in 1708 according to testamentary disposition, and inherited the maternal properties.
Executed in Rome in the 1670s, this portraits fits in Voet's 'series' of foreign noblemen wearing papillon and banyan.