Lot 52: 

James Maubert (Ireland 1666-1746 London)
Portrait of Catherine Sancroft (c. 1716-1780) and her sister Elizabeth (1714-1788), full-length, the former in a blue dress holding a spaniel, the latter in a yellow dress holding a bowl of flowers, before a draped curtain, a park landscape beyond
signed 'J: Maubert; Pinxit.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
48 x 56¾ in. (122 x 144 cm.)

Prince Duleep Singh, Portraits in Norfolk Houses, I, 1927, p. 24, illustrated.

(Probably) commissioned by the sitter's father, William Sancroft (1683-1720), and by descent to Elizabeth's daughter,
Sarah Wogan, wife of the Reverend Gervas Holmes, Vicar of Fressingfield, and by descent to
John Sancroft Holmes, Gawdy Hall, Norfolk, by 1913.
Anonymous sale; Bonhams, Knightsbridge, 16 December 1998, lot 6 (£31,000).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 30 June 2005, lot 40 (£57,600 to the present owner).