Kendall House Antiques Ltd. has dated this piece to the 18th Century.
22cm x18cm including its frame.
Sir John Comyns was made sergeant-at-law in 1705, and knighted in 1726.
The portrait galleries line engraving (image included) shows striking similarities to the oil painting we are selling.
Notes: A successful lawyer, who wrote two important legal treatises, one of which was hailed as being ‘exceedingly clear and perspicuous, and at the same time, remarkably concise and exact’. He rebuilt Hylands, on a Greek temple design, and remodeled Guy Harlings in Chelmsford, in white brick. He also bought the manor at Writtle, and owned land in Kent
Judge Sir John Comyns, barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1690; M.P. for Maldon, 1701-26; Sergeant-at-law, 1705; Baron of the Exchequer, 1726; Justice of the Common Pleas, 1736; Chief Baron of the Exchequer, 1738; author of the Reports of cases 1744 and “A Digest of the Laws of England” 1762. John was the grandson of a Dagenham tanner who prospered. The tanner's timber framed house, across the road from Dagenham Parish Church, dates from c1500 and is now the Cross Keys P.H., and the oldest secular building in the borough. His tomb at Writtle Church is surmounted by a bust by Sir Henry Cheere.
Kendall House Antiques Ltd. has dated this piece to the 18th Century.
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18th Century Portrait of Sir John Comyns, Chief Baron of the Exchequer (1667-1740)
