Dutch School, 17th CenturyPortrait of Thomas, 2nd son of Thomas Keightley, three-quarter-length, in black costume
charged with the crest of the Keightley family's coat-of-arms (on letter, lower centre)
oil on canvas, oval
94.2 x 77.3cm (37 1/16 x 30 7/16in).注脚Provenance
With Fine Art Show Rooms, Dublin, where purchased by the present owner in 1971

The sitter was the second son of Thomas Keightley, a London merchant, and Rose, daughter of Thomas Evelyn of Long Ditton, Surrey. She was the first cousin of John Evelyn the diarist. The present sitter's nephew, also Thomas Keightley (1650-1719), married Frances, youngest daughter of Edward Hyde 1st Earl of Clarendon and sister of Anne Hyde who married the Duke of York, the future James II.