Strauss & co - 12 October 2015, Cape Town

492 Attributed to Willem WISSING BRITISH 1 656-1687 Portrait of a Lady, said to be Jane Ashburnham (1604-1672) oil on canvas 232 by 141cm R150 000–175 000 PROVENANCE By descent from the sitter until sold at Sotheby’s, London, 15 July 1953, lot 95 Sotheby’s, London, British Paintings 1500- 1850 , Wednesday 9 July 1997, lot 18 Full length, standing, wearing a brown dress with blue robes. The Hon. Jane Boteler, later Jane Ashburnham, was daughter of John, 1st Lord Boteler of Bramfield and his wife Elizabeth, half sister of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. In 1621 she married James Ley, 1st Earl of Marborough as his third wife. After his death in 1629, and described as ‘young, beautiful, childless and rich’, she married William Ashburnham, Cofferer of the Household to Charles I and Charles II. 201