Roy Precious - Antiques & Fine Art has dated this piece to the 18th Century.
A charming portrait of the young Elizabeth Finch (1694-1720) wearing a feather headdress.
Elizabeth was the younger daughter of William Finch of Thenterden, Kent and the younger sister of Mary.
Elizabeth never married and died in 1720 aged 26. She is buried at Tenterden.
The Finches were a gentry family with aristocratic connections, related to the Finch Earls of Nottingham, Winchelsea and Aylesford.
SIZE: 37.25 x 32.5 x 2.25 inches including frame.
PROVENANCE: By family descent.
Verso, on the frame and canvas two wax seals bearing coat of arms, and a printed coat of arms of Richard Almack. Also a handwritten copperplate inscription giving the name of the sitter and other information.
A great deal of old handwritten information about the Finch family tree accompanies the portrait.
ROBERT BYNG (1666 - 1720) was born in Wiltshire, but is buried in Oxford where he died in 1720, having lived there since before 1714.
He was a pupil of, and very strongly influenced by, Sir Godfrey Kneller (Principal Painter to the King and the most distinguished Baroque portraitist in England).
Byng's earliest dated portraits are c.1697; one of his younger brothers, Edward, was drapery painter to Kneller and his principal assistant.
Roy Precious - Antiques & Fine Art has dated this piece to the 18th Century.
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Portrait of Elizabeth Finch C.1702; Attributed to Robert Byng.
