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491 ENGLISH SCHOOL BRITISH CIRCA 1 605 Portrait of Lady Stone, Wife of Sir William Stone oil on canvas 197 by 126,5cm R200 000–300 000 PROVENANCE The Campion family, Danny Park. Sotheby’s, London, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Paintings , Wednesday 14th March 1984, lot 17 Full length, wearing a black dress and white ruff and holding a fan. With the family coat of arms and motto - ‘FRONTI. NVLIA. FIDES’. The sitter was Barbara, daughter of John Thorne. On the death of Sir William in 1607, she married William Campion of Combwell in Kent as his third wife. He died in 1615. Important South African and International Art 200