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Peter Cross(British, circa 1650-1724)The Hon. Heneage Finch, later 5th Earl of Winchilsea (1657–1726), head and shoulders facing left, in a blue day-gown, lace cravat, full-bottomed brown wig
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Peter Cross (British, circa 1650-1724)
The Hon. Heneage Finch, later 5th Earl of Winchilsea (1657–1726), head and shoulders facing left, in a blue day-gown, lace cravat, full-bottomed brown wig.
Watercolour and bodycolour on vellum laid down on card, the reverse signed with cipher, PC and inscribed, Collonell Finch (sic), later silver frame with scroll surmount.
Oval, 82mm (3 1/4in) high
Provenance:
Sotheby's London, 4July 1989, lot 265
Judy & Brian Harden Ltd, June 2010;
The Twinight Collection
Watercolour and bodycolour on vellum laid down on card, the reverse signed with cipher, PC and inscribed, Collonell Finch (sic), later silver frame with scroll surmount.
Oval, 82mm (3 1/4in) high
Provenance:
Sotheby's London, 4July 1989, lot 265
Judy & Brian Harden Ltd, June 2010;
The Twinight Collection
Footnotes
Heneage Finch (1657–1726) inherited the earldom of Winchilsea in 1712 from his nephew Charles, 4th Earl, and with it legal and financial burdens that took years to resolve. Shortly after the Restoration, from 1661–1667, Finch acted as King Charles II's ambassador to the Sublime Porte. When James, Duke of York succeeded as King James II, Finch, already Groom of the Bedchamber, was commissioned a colonel - note the inscription on the reverse of this miniature- and was appointed a deputy lieutenant for Kent. Following the Glorious Revolution Finch's Jacobite sympathies led him to be arrested, although charges were later dropped. When he assumed the earldom he refused to take the Oath of Allegiance and did not take his seat in the House of Lords. His wife was the poet Anne Kingsmill (1661–1720), whose miniature portrait by Peter Cross is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London (inv. no. NPG4692).
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