JONSON VAN CEULEN, Cornelius the Elder
(b. 1593, London, d. 1661, Utrecht)

Portrait of Lady Bowyer

1636
Oil on canvas, 79 x 63 cm
Private collection

This signed and dated painting portrays Lady Bowyer, half length, wearing a green dress with ribbons and a pearl necklace, in a sculpted cartouche. Lady Bowyer (Hester Aucher, died 1665) married in 1632 Sir Edmund Bowyer (1613-1681), an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1679.




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