Judith Sandys (d. 1720)
Jonathan Richardson (1665-1745)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
Unknown
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
760 x 630 mm
Collection
Hartwell House, Buckinghamshire
NT 2900388
Summary
Oil on canvas, Judith Sandys (d. 1720), by Jonathan Richardson the elder (1667-1745). An oval half-length portrait of a woman with brown hair and wearing a blue dress and white chemise. The sitter was a daughter of the London merchant Thomas Sandys and became the wife of Humphry Morice, MP (c. 1671-1731). Her second daughter, Judith (1710-43), married Sir George Lee, MP, PC (1700-58), youngest brother of Sir Thomas Lee, 3rd Bt. (1687-1749). 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 2900387, a portrait of Elizabeth Sandys.
Provenance
Provenance: By descent at Hartwell House; sold at the auction of the contents of Hartwell House on 26 April 1938 (lot 80, 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