Lot 268: Hugh Barron (London 1747-1791) Portrait of a lady, said to be Susanna, Mrs Bacon Bedingfield of Ditchingham Hall, Norfolk,

Portrait of a lady, said to be Susanna, Mrs Bacon Bedingfield of Ditchingham Hall, Norfolk, three-quarter-length, in a cream dress with a blue wrap, seated in a landscape
oil on canvas
126.6 x 102cm (49 13/16 x 40 3/16in).

PROVENANCE:
By descent from the sitter to Phillip H.B. Bedingfield
Fisher Blakeslee Esq., New York
Mrs George Byrne, New York
Sir Robert Dashwood Bt., Duns Tew Manor, Oxford
His sale, Christie's London, 12 July 1946, lot 145, as F. Cotes (bt. Francis for £126)

In the 1946 sale, the present painting was described as a portrait of Miss Strafford [sic] of Blatherwycke Park, Northamptonshire. However, by the date of this portrait, Blatherwycke Park had been inherited by the O'Brien family. A possible identification of the sitter may be Susanna, daughter of Donatus O'Brien of Blatherwycke Park, who married the Reverend Bacon Bedingfield of Ditchingham Hall, Norfolk, in 1770.