Lot 28: BENJAMIN FERRERS, D. 1732

PORTRAIT OF LADY MARY KEITH, COUNTESS OF WIGTON (D.1721), WIFE OF JOHN, 6 TH EARL OF WIGTON

PORTRAIT OF LADY MARY KEITH, COUNTESS OF WIGTON (D.1721), WIFE OF JOHN, 6^TH EARL OF WIGTON

73x60cm.; 28 3/4 x23 3/4 in.

later inscribed with the identity of the sitter; inscribed and dated Benj Ferrers Pinxt 1712

oil on canvas in a painted oval

NOTE

The sitter was the daughter of William Keith, 8^th Earl Marischal, and his wife, Mary, daughter of James Drummond, 4^th Earl of Perth. She married, John, 6^th Earl of Wigton, as his second wife, and the present work may even be a marriage portrait.