Elizabeth Sandys (c. 1690 - 1728)
Jonathan Richardson (1665-1745)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
c. 1720
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
760 x 630 mm
Collection
Hartwell House, Buckinghamshire
NT 2900387
Summary
Oil on canvas, Elizabeth Sandys (c.1690 - 1728), by Jonathan Richardson the Elder (London 1667-1745), circa 1720. An oval half-length portrait of a young woman with brown hair, a single curl resting on her proper left shoulder, wearing a yellow dress, white chemise and jewelled brooch at the breast. The sitter was a daughter of the London merchant Thomas Sandys and married Sir Thomas Lee, 3rd Bt. (1687-1749) in 1720. In a carved giltwood frame with a label ascribing the portrait to Sir Godfrey Kneller. This attribution has been rejected by J. Douglas Stewart and Dr Malcolm Rogers CBE, who have proposed an attribution to Richardson. A pair to NT 2900388, a portrait of Judith Sandys.
Provenance
By descent at Hartwell House; sold at the auction of the contents of Hartwell House on 26 April 1938 (lot 78, then hanging in the dining room); accepted by HM Government under the Cultural Gifts Scheme from Harold Killingback, in memory of his first wife Monica and her uncle David Melville, and allocated to the National Trust for display at Hartwell House, 2020.
Makers and roles
Jonathan Richardson (1665-1745), artist