Lot 184: ATTRIBUTED TO JONATHAN RICHARDSON (LONDON 1665- 1745) Portrait of Co

ATTRIBUTED TO JONATHAN RICHARDSON (LONDON 1665- 1745) Portrait of Commodore Thomas Scott, three-quarter- length, in a blue coat, a ship at anchor in the distance bears inscription ‘Commodore Scott obit 1725’ (upper left) oil on canvas 126.5 x 102cm (49 13/16 x 40 3/16in).

Provenance The Scott Family, Scot’s Hall, Smeeth, Kent, and thence by descent through marriage to Thomas Fairfax Best, Chilston Park and Wierton, Kent, before 1876, and thence by descent through the family to Hugh Scott (1885-1960) With Agnews, London, 1961, where acquired by Guy B. Scott (d. 2006), Polstead Hall, Suffolk, and thence by descent to the present owner Literature J. R Scott, Scott, of Scot’s Hall, in the County of Kent, London, 1876, p. 242 The sitter, Commodore Thomas Scott, born to Sir Thomas Scott in 1675, served in the Royal Naval until he died unmarried in Jamaica in