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Sep 16, 2022
(Scottish, 1617?1694)
Sir John Frederick, Lord Mayor of London, titled top left "Sir John Frederick, Knt./M.P. for Dartmouth./b.1601-obit 1685.", oil on canvas, 50 x 40 in.; black painted frame, 57-1/8 x 47-1/4 in.
Note: Sir John Frederick was a member of the British Parliament for Dartmouth, 1660?1661 and for the City of London, 1663?1679. He was also the Lord Mayor of London.
For a similar portrait see: National Portrait Gallery (no. 56), London, George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem (https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitExtended/mw03448/George-Jeffreys-1st-Baron-Jeffreys-of-Wem)
The frame plate erroneously gives an attribution to Joseph Wright of Derby.
Provenance: Pook & Pook, Inc., April 25, 2014, lot 337, sold as Manner of John Michael Wright (Scottish, 1617-1694); Private Collection, Matthews, North Carolina
lined, crackle, retouch, stretcher marks; frame with wear
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