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CORNELIS JOHNSON VAN CEULEN (LONDON 1593-1661 UTRECHT)
Portrait of a lady, traditionally identified as Mary Chetwynd (d.1637), bust-length, in a red brocade gown, in a feigned marble cartouche
signed and dated 'Co. J Fecit / 1628' (lower right)
oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm.)
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The sitter's pendant displays the heraldic device of 'azure a chevron' between three mullets, the coat-of-arms of the Chetwynd family, influential landowners and churchmen in Staffordshire in the 17th century. The age and unmarried status of the sitter would suggest a most likely identification as Mary Chetwynd, only daughter of Sir Walter Chetwynd of Ingestre, Sheriff of Salop. She later married George Digby of London.

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