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ENGLISH SCHOOL (17TH CENTURY) PORTRAIT OF JOANNA BOEVEY, FULL-LENGTH IN A BLACK AND BROWN DRESS WITH EMBROIDERED SLEEVES HOLDING A PAIR OF GLOVES Oil on panel Inscribed 'ANNO 1616/ ANNO BOEVE/AETATIS SVAE 11-' (upper left) 143.5 x 95.3cm (56¼ x 37½ in.) In an 18th Century carved giltwood frame. Provenance: Probably commissioned by Andreas Boevey (1566-1625), and by descent at Flaxley Abbey, Gloucestershire, until sold Flaxley Abbey, Gloucestershire: Catalogue of the Valuable Contents, Bruton, Knowles & Co., 29 March - 5 April 1960, lot 1296 Bought by Mr and Mrs Frederick Baden-Watkins and thence by descent at Flaxley Abbey Literature: Arthur W. Crawley-Boevey, A Brief Account of the Antiquities, Family Pictures and Other Notable Articles at Flaxley Abbey, co. Gloucester, Bristol, 1912, p. 11, no. 1; p. 12 In the 1960 sale of the house contents of Flaxley Abbey, Gloucestershire, this painting was ascribed to 'Sandvort'. The portrait represents Joanna Boevey (1605-64) as a young girl, aged 11, daughter of Andreas Boevey (1566-1625), a Dutch Huguenot emigré, merchant, financier and elder of the Dutch church at Austin Friars. Joanna married Abraham de Clerke (also Dutch, anglicised to Clarke). After 1654, James I transferred the Flaxley estate to Joanna's brother, William Boevey, who gifted a share to his sister, and directed that the remainder be sold after his death for the benefit of his wife. In 1661, Joanna bought out her sister-in-law, and lived at Flaxley with her son, Abraham Clarke the younger. On Abraham's death in 1683, he bequeathed the estate to his cousin, also named William Boevey (1657-92), son of his half-uncle, James (J. Lees-Milne, 'Flaxley Abbey, Gloucestershire - I: The Home of Mr. and Mrs. F.B. Watkins', Country Life, 29 March 1973, pp. 844-845). A second painting of Joanna as an adult is recorded at Flaxley in 1912, and at this date was tentatively attributed to Cornelius Jansen (1585-1638) (A.W. Crawley-Boevey, A Brief Account of the Antiquities, Family Pictures and Other Notable Articles at Flaxley Abbey, co. Gloucester, Bristol, 1912, p. 11, no. 2; p. 13). Condition Report: Panel supported on the reverse by five horizontal wooden slats, one of later date. Four horizontal wooden panels, with visible openings between them. Several vertical cracks: two of about 36 and 27 cm running up from the edge lower left, one of about 36 cm running up from the edge in the centre, one of approx. 40 cm running down from the top edge upper right, several smaller ones running down from the top edge. Surface dirt and discolouration of the varnish. UV reveals retouching particularly along the cracks as well as in the sitter's face where the paint is slightly thinning. Condition Report Disclaimer