STUDIO OF SIR GODFREY KNELLER PORTRAIT OF GEORGE GRANVILLE

STUDIO OF SIR GODFREY KNELLER PORTRAIT OF GEORGE GRANVILLE, PC, 1ST BARON LANSDOWNE AND "DUKE OF ALBEMARLE" IN THE JACOBITE PEERAGE (1666-1735) bust length in a brown coat and lace jabot, an old indistinct inscription on a label verso "... created Baron Lansdown", oval, 74 x 61cm, 18th c carved and gilded frameProvenance: By descent in the family to the 2nd Marquess of Bath (1765-1837) of Longleat; his grandson Francis John Thynne (1830-1910) of Haynes Park, Bedfordshire by whose executors sold Christie's, Thynne Heirlooms from Haynes Park, 1 May 1911, lot 13 (16 guineas to Cohen).The sitter George Granville, the poet, playwright and politician was associated with the Jacobite cause and was the son of Bernard Granville, himself the son of Sir Bevil Grenville of Cornwall, an illustrious Royalist commander in the Civil War.