Sir Francis Throckmorton, 2nd Bt (1641-1680)
Gilbert Soest (Soest c.1605 – London 1681)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1672 (signed) - 1680
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
749 x 635 mm (29 1/2 x 25 in)
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Coughton Court, Warwickshire
NT 135581
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Sir Francis Throckmorton, 2nd Bt (1641-1680) by Gerard Soest (Soest c.1600 – London 1681), signed: Soest pinxit, circa 1672. Inscribed, top right, in gold lettereing: Sr FRANCIS THROCKMORTON BARt/ DIED 1681. A head-and-shoulders portrait, to right, of the son of Sir Robert Throckmorton (d.1680), in grey cloak with white cravat tied with a red ribbon in a bow and long flowing full-bottomed wig. Sir Francis restored the house, much damaged during the Civil War when it was besieged by Parliamentary forces.
Provenance
Purchased by National Trust in 2006 through private treaty sale
Credit line
Coughton Court, The Throckmorton Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Gilbert Soest (Soest c.1605 – London 1681), artist
References
Collins Baker 1912 C. H. Collins Baker, Lely and the Stuart Portrait Painters, London, 1912, I, pp.206-7; II, p.153, no. 41