ATTRIBUTED TO JEREMIAH DAVISON (SCOTLAND C.1695-1745 LONDON)
Lot 203

ATTRIBUTED TO JEREMIAH DAVISON (SCOTLAND C.1695-1745 LONDON)

Portrait of Edward Rogers (1705-1763), High Sheriff of Gloucestershire; and Portrait of Elizabeth Rogers, née Green (c.1705-1788)

Closed14 September 2021

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GBP 8,125

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ATTRIBUTED TO JEREMIAH DAVISON (SCOTLAND C.1695-1745 LONDON)
Portrait of Edward Rogers (1705-1763), High Sheriff of Gloucestershire; and Portrait of Elizabeth Rogers, née Green (c.1705-1788)
oil on canvas, unlined
50 ½ x 39 ¾ in. (128.3 x 101 cm.)
(2)in eighteenth-century frames

with Edward Hurst, Salisbury, by October 2007, where acquired by the present owner.

Specialist note

Edward Rogers was appointed High Sheriff of Gloucestershire at the end of December 1739, he served the customary year term. In 1730 he had married Elizabeth Green; they went on to have two daughters: Elizabeth, who married the prominent barrister Edward Bearcroft, and Laetitia, who married Charles Jones. On the death of their mother, the two daughters inherited a joint share in the family home, Okle Clifford, in Newent, Gloucestershire.