ADAM'S Country House Collections 15th October 2019

284 Country House Collections 413 ATTRIBUTED TO ENOCH SEEMAN (1694 - 1744) Portrait of a young boy with attendant king Charles spaniel, half-length; together with a companion portrait of a young girl in a blue dress A pair, oils on canvas, each 70.5 x 58.5cm In carved wood frames € 4,000 - 6,000 This portrait was sold alongside its companion portrait depicting Commodore William Kerr (husband of Catherine) in Sotheby’s prestigious two-day auction at Gargrave House in 1982. Kerr, a prominent naval officer during the 17th Century, was the son of the 1st Marquess of Lothian, Robert Kerr, a Scottish nobleman. The portrait of Commodore Kerr is in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. The sitter in this work, Catherine Kerr (née Dod) was the daughter and heiress of a wealthy Shropshire family in Calverhall. While Dahl often captured his female subjects in a Classical setting leaning against a plinth, the composition of this portrait bares a particular close resemblance to that of Dorothy Mason, Lady Brownlow, in the National Trust Collection at Belton House in Grantham, Lincolnshire.