Sir George Wakeman (fl. 1668-1685), in black silk cloak and large white lawn collar, long curling brown hair; sky and cloud background

细节

NICHOLAS DIXON (BRITISH, FL. C. 1660-1708)
Sir George Wakeman (fl. 1668-1685), in black silk cloak and large white lawn collar, long curling brown hair; sky and cloud background
signed with monogram 'ND' (lower right)
on vellum
oval, 2 9/16 in. (65 mm.) high, silver-gilt frame, the reverse engraved with the sitter's name and date 1679

来源

Colonel Lyons, London.
Duveen Brothers, London.
Hans Freiherr Reitzes von Marienwert, Vienna.
Greta S. Heckett, Heckmeres Highlands, Valencia, PA.; (+) part II, Sotheby's, London, 11 July 1977, lot 144.

展览

Vienna, Albertina, Internationale Miniaturen-Ausstellung in der Albertina Wien, 1924, no. 281 (lent by Baron Hans Reitzes von Marienwert).
Pittsburgh, PA., Carnegie Institute, Four Centuries of Portrait Miniatures, 1954, no. 19, illustrated pl. XI (lent by Eric and Greta S. Heckett).

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拍品专文

Sir George Wakeman, was the son of Edward Wakeman (1592-1659) and his wife, Mary, daughter of Richard Cotton of Warblington, Sussex. A Roman Catholic, he studied at St. Omer in 1647 and Pavia and possibly in Paris where he may have graduated in medicine. He was a staunch Royalist and on his return to England, he became involved in a plot against Oliver Cromwell and was imprisoned until the Restoration. On 13 February 1661 he was created a baronet as Wakeman of Beckford by Charles II. He was appointed in 1670 as physician in ordinary to Queen Catherine as he was considered the best Roman Catholic physician in England. He was accused by Titus Oates of planning to poison King
Charles II in 1678 but was acquited the following year.