The Principal Contents of Corby Castle, Cumbria
Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt.
Portrait of Sarah Cornish, later Mrs Henry Holt Henley (1693–1731), full-length, standing wearing a white dress, pointing to a scallop-shaped fountain to her right
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8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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1 GBP
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The Principal Contents of Corby Castle, Cumbria
Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt.
Lübeck 1646–1723 London
Portrait of Sarah Cornish, later Mrs Henry Holt Henley (1693–1731), full-length, standing wearing a white dress, pointing to a scallop-shaped fountain to her right
signed and dated lower right: G.Kneller. f: 1714
oil on canvas, in a carved and gilt English Baroque frame
unframed: 229.4 x 137.2 cm.; 90⅜ x 54 in.
framed: 248 x 155.4 cm.; 97⅝ x 61⅛ in.
By descent in the sitter's family to Commander Richard Henley Torbock, R.N. (1904–1994) and Henry Cornish Torbock (1905–1993), Crossrigg Hall, Cliburn, near Penrith, Cumbria;
By whose Executors sold, on the premises, Sotheby’s, 13 September 1994, lot 336 (as Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt.), for £8,000;
Where acquired.
The sitter, Sarah Cornish, was the daughter of Henry Cornish (c. 1659–1724), of St. Lawrence Jewry, London and Sherrard Street, Westminster. She later married Henry Holt Henley of Leigh (d. 1748) and the portrait descended in the Henley family until the sale of Crossrigg Hall in 1994.
Kneller later returns to this composition in his Portrait of Mary, Marchioness of Rockingham, dated 1720, now part of the collections of the Birmingham Museums Trust.1
1 Accession no. 1947P21; oil on canvas, 236.2 x 134.6 cm.
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