Lady chapman

Godfrey Kneller

Oil on canvas

London 1721

A fine example of a late Kneller, the sitter in a white satin dress on a architectural background. Lady Chapmans husband Sir William Chapman was a director of the South Sea Company. They where ennobled in 1720, it's likely this portrait was commissioned as pat of a family group.

• Provenance Dorothy Rothschild

• Christies London, 1971

• Baronet Werner

• Private Collection USA

• Private Collection UK