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Gertrude Savile, Marchioness of Halifax
Mary Beale (English, 1633 – 1699)
English
about 1679
Medium/Technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
123.2 × 100.3 cm (48 1/2 × 39 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Henry H. and Zoe Oliver Sherman Fund
Accession Number2023.482
ClassificationsPaintings
ProvenanceAbout 1679, the sitter, Gertrude Savile, Marchioness of Halifax (b. 1641 – d. 1727), London; 1727, by inheritance to her grandson, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (b. 1694 – d. 1773), Chesterfield House, London [see note 1]; by descent within the family to George Philip Cecil Arthur Stanhope, 7th Earl of Chesterfield (b. 1831 – d. 1871), Chesterfield House; 1871, by inheritance to his mother, Anne Elizabeth Stanhope, Countess of Chesterfield (b. 1802 – d. 1885) and moved to Bretby Park, Derbyshire; 1885, by inheritance to her grandson, George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (b. 1866 – d. 1923), Berkeley Square, London; May 31 and June 3, 1918, Bretby Park sale, Christie, Manson and Woods, London, lot 114, sold to Brownlow [see note 2], possibly Adelbert Wellington Brownlow-Cust, 3rd Earl Brownlow (b. 1884 – d. 1921), Belton House, Lincolnshire. June 25, 2017, anonymous sale, Wilkinson’s Auctioneers, Doncaster, lot 543, unsold [see note 3]. 2021, sold from a private collection, Sussex to Peter Harrison Fine Art, London; 2023, sold by Peter Harrison Fine Art to the MFA. (Accession date: October 11, 2023)
NOTES:
[1] The sitter bequeathed her entire estate to her grandson, the 4th Earl of Chesterfield.
[2] As Duchess of Cleveland by Lely.
[3] As Three Quarter Length Portrait of a Lady, attributed to John Michael Wright.
NOTES:
[1] The sitter bequeathed her entire estate to her grandson, the 4th Earl of Chesterfield.
[2] As Duchess of Cleveland by Lely.
[3] As Three Quarter Length Portrait of a Lady, attributed to John Michael Wright.