Strauss & co - 12 October 2015, Cape Town

493 Peter MONAMY BRITISH 1 681-1749 Portrait of a Gentleman oil on canvas 119 by 95cm R80 000–120 000 An old inventory label on the reverse states that the painting was formerly at Olantigh Towers and was the property of the Trustees of the late John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge Erle-Drax, as no. 1683. Erle-Drax was a Member of Parliament and an active collector during the 1850s, his collection including Claude Lorrain’s Roman Campagna of circa 1639, which he purchased in 1859 and which is today in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 202