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Description Circle of Michael Dahl
Portrait of Colonel John Wyndham of Norrington (1647-1723)
inscribed centre left: John Wyndham Esqr. / ob. 1725
oil on canvas, in a painted oval stone niche, in a carved and pierced giltwood frame
77.5 x 63.9 cm.
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Literature Inventory, 1749, in the dressing room;
Catalogue of Portraits,?1920, no. 48.
Notes John Wyndham was the eldest son of the distinguished judge Sir Wadham Wyndham of Ilton, Somerset, and his wife Barbara, daughter of Sir George Clerke. Educated at Salisbury Cathedral School and Wadham College, Oxford, he followed his father into the law, joining Lincoln’s Inn. He served as M.P. for Salisbury in 1681 and 1685, and was colonel of the militia from 1681-89. He married Alice, daughter of Thomas Fownes of Steepleton Iwerne, Dorset.?His son Thomas became Lord Chancellor of Ireland (see lots?116 and 244), and his daughter Alice married Sir Edward Knatchbull, 4th Bt.?(see lots 110 and 122).