The portrait is of Lancelot Andrewes, a prosperous draper from Cheapside whose daughter Mary married in 1753 Edmund Keene.

It has passed by descent through the Ruck-Keene family.
The Rucks are descended from a family of German bankers who moved to England in the 1500s and settled in Suffolk.
SIZE: 27 x 22.5 inches inc. frame.
PROVENANCE: by descent.
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