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Description Attributed to Edward Bower
Totnes 1576 - 1667 London
Portrait of James Hugessen (d. 1646); and Portrait of his wife, Jane Adrian
the former charged with the Hugessen coat-of-arms and dated upper left: 1636
a pair, both oil on canvas
each: 116 x 93 cm.
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Provenance By descent to William Western Hugessen (1736-64), Provender, Kent;
To his daughter and co-heiress, Mary Western Hugessen (d. 1784) and her husband Sir Edward Knatchbull, 8th Bt. (1758-1819).
Notes The Hugessen family originally came from Dunkirk in Flanders. James Hugessen bought two estates in Kent: Sewards in Lynsted, and Provender in Norton. He was High Sheriff of Kent. The tomb commemorating him and his wife, Jane, in the form of painted recumbent sculptures, along with the figures of their seven children, is in the church of St Peter and St Paul, Lynsted. The inscription on the tomb identifies James Hugessen as a ‘Merchant Adventurer’ – a career to which the seascape and ship visible in the background behind him here, evidently refer.