ENGLISH SCHOOL, 18th century A portrait of a gentleman

wearing a blue coat and a white stock, oval, pastel, 30cm x 25cm, retaining the original giltwood and gesso frame with a beaded inner border

Provenance: According to a label on the reverse this pastel portrait was in the Drawing Room at Ven House and was shown there in a photograph of circa 1890. It came to Sandford Orcas in 1929. It possibly depicts Thomas Hutchings Medlycott, the father of Sir William Coles Medlycott, the first Baronet.