Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester

Inscriptionback to top

Signed, lower left: PC in monogram.

This portraitback to top

An original portrait, but relying closely on the Kneller of 1685.

Referenceback to top

McLeod 2001
C. MacLeod & J. M. Alexander, Painted Ladies at the Court of Charles II, exhibition catalogue, NPG/New Haven, 2001, pp 203-04.

Piper 1963
D. Piper, Catalogue of the Seventeenth Century Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery 1625-1714, 1963, p 110.

Provenanceback to top

Rev E. H. Dawkins,¹ Morhanger House, Beds.; his sale, Christie’s, 4 March 1913, lot 40, bought F. T. Sabin for the NPG.

¹ A descendant of the Portmore family into which the Countess had married.

Exhibitionsback to top

Painted Ladies at the Court of Charles II, NPG/New Haven, 2001, no.97.


This extended catalogue entry is from the National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Later Stuart Portraits 1685–1714, National Portrait Gallery, 2009, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.

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