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UK PRICE £8950. Oil on canvas in period giltwood frame. LADY MARY MONTGOMERIE was the daughter of Alexander Montgomerie, 8th Earl of Eglinton and Lady Elizabeth Crichton. (The 19th c. label on the frame mistakenly gives her father as Hugh, 7th Earl.) The title of Earl of Eglinton has been held by the famous Scotish family of Montgomerie since 1508. The Earl of Eglinton is Hereditary Clan Chief of Clan Montgomerie. A contract for the marriage of Lady Mary and Sir James Agnew of Lochnaw, 4th Baronet, was signed on 22 June 1683. Sir James was Hereditary Sheriff of Galloway 1702-1724; he died in 1724 and Lady Mary in April 1742. She was buried at Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh. She had over twenty children! JOHN HAYLS (Hales) (fl.1651-1679) was a portrait painter who studied under Miereveldt. He was a competitor of Lely and painted in the manner of Van Dyck, also being an excellent copyist of his portraits. In 1666 Samuel Pepys, the famous diarist and Commissioner for the Royal Navy, had his and his wife Elizabeth's portraits painted by Hayls. Of the paintings he wrote:- "I am still infinitely pleased with my wife's picture. I paid him £14 for it, and 25s for the frame, and I think it is not a whit too dear for so good a picture. It is not yet quite finished and dry, so as to be fit to bring home yet. This day I begin to sit, and he will make me, I think, a very fine picture. He promises it shall be as good as my wife's." Hayls died in Bloomsbury and is buried in St. Martin's Church. SIZE: 43 x 34 inches inc. frame. PROVENANCE: By descent to the 14th Earl of Kintore of Keith Hall, Aberdenshire. Verso: old inventory label "The Earl of Kintore. No. 53 on Oct. '83 valuation". (The third photograph shows Keith Hall as it is today.)
| Status: For Sale |
Reference#: 8507 |
| Condition:
Excellent |
Year:
17th c
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