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拍品 314
English School, 1630
Portrait of Mary, Lady Offley, full-length, in a white embroidered dress, pink and gold embroidered overcoat, lace ruff and headdress, holding a fan in her right hand, by a draped table
已結束2013年5月2日
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The daughter of Nicholas Fuller of Chamberhouse, Berkshire, the sitter married in 1605 Sir John Offley, of Madeley, Staffordshire, who was a Member of Parliament for Stafford in 1625 and 1626. Izaak Walton dedicated The Compleat Angler to their son, John Offley (d. 1658) in 1653. Their grandson, John Offley (d. 1688), married Anne, daughter and coheir of John Crewe (d. 1711), of Crewe, and consequently the family inherited the Crewe estates in Cheshire. It the next generation, John Offley (d. 1749) changed his name to Crewe by Act of Parliament in 1708. Built between 1615 and 1636 for Sir Randolph Crewe, Crewe Hall was one of the largest houses in 17th-Century England, and was said to have 'brought London into Cheshire'.