English: Detail of a painted portrait of Jane Stebbing (1679 – c. 1730), the wife of Thomas Aynscombe (died October 1740), showing the inscription on the painting.
Date
1706 (?) (date of sitter's marriage to Aynscombe).
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
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Dimensions
height: 127 cm (50 in); width: 101.8 cm (40 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,127U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,101.8U174728
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Object history
Unknown dates: Passed from the sitter to her grandson-in-law, Lillie Smith Aynscombe; then to his daughters; then to their cousin (the son of Katherine Bisse) Colonel Thomas-Chaloner Bisse-Challoner; then to his brother-in-law Rev. Henry Jerome de Salis; to his eldest son Rodolph Fane de Salis, and then his next brother Sir Cecil Fane de Salis, and then by family descent (his son John Peter and then his daughter) to certain (currently unidentified) owners.
5 December 2007: Sold at auction (described as a Portrait of a lady, said to be Jane (1679 – circa 1730), wife of Thomas Aynscombe by the studio of John Verelst) by Bonhams, New Bond Street, London, UK (Auction 15322, lot 32) to an unidentified buyer for £4,200 including the premium.
Inscriptions
centre left: "IANE. WIFE OF. / THO. AYNSCOMBE / ESQE."
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Original upload log
Original uploader was Rodolph at en.wikipedia 6 February 2009 (original upload date)
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