Lot 217: CORNELIUS JOHNSON

CORNELIUS JOHNSON LONDON 1593 - 1661 UTRECHT PORTRAIT OF MARGARET MILLER, LADY HEATH (1578-1647), WIFE OF SIR ROBERT HEATH, LORD CHIEF JUSTICE inscribed upper left: Lady Heath oil on panel 75 by 61 cm.; 29 1/2 by 24 in.

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Margaret Miller married Sir Robert Heath, of Brasted, Kent, on 10υth December 1600. The couple had nine children, six of whom lived to adulthood (see following two lots). During her husbands years in exile following the Civil War, Margaret remained at the family home in Brasted, Kent, where she died in December 1647. A year later Heath wrote Anniversarium, which contained a tribute to his late wife. In September 1649, following his death in Calais, Heath's body was brought back to England and interred beside her's in the family chapel at Brasted.