Lot 19 , A late 18th / early 19th century oil on wooden panel hatchment
A late 18th / early 19th century oil on wooden panel hatchment with coat of arms with wild boar crest and skull finial, 130 x 129cm
12.13 All black background except for third palewise division of shield
Argent two bars azure overall an eagle double-headed displayed gules (Speke); impaling to dexter: Speke and in pretence: Quarterly, 1 and 4: Argent a fess wavy between six crosscrosslets gules (Brooking); 2 and 3: Argent three estoiles within a bordure gules (Innes?); and impaling to sinister (1): Gules a demi-wolf issuant from a rock on the sinister side all argent (Peere-Williams); (2): Speke and in pretence: Per chevron sable and or in base a moorcock sable membered combed and wattled gules in chief two pairs of reaping-hooks endorsed and entwined the blades one of each pair argent the other or (Hockmore of Buckyate DEV). See detail image for escutcheons.
Crest: An urcheon passant argent
Mantling: Gules doubled argent
Motto scroll unlettered
Skull in base
Wooden panel 130cm square
For George Speke of Whitelackington SOM who married 1st Alice daughter of Nicholas Brooking (died 1724, buried 29 Dec at Whitelackington), 2nd at Cricket Malherbie SOM 28 Jan 1731/32 Jane née Hickmore, widow of William Pitt and 3rd at Ilminster SOM 7 Jul 1737 Anne daughter of William Peere-Williams of Chichester SSX and Broxbourne HRT and widow of Sir William Drake 6th Bt of Ash (who died 21 Oct 1733); he died 1752/53 (buried 12 Jan at Whitelackington SOM) and his widow died 31 May 1782. The daughter of his last marriage, Anne Speke, married Frederick North 2nd Earl of Guildford and Prime Minister 1770-1782.
(Stirnet; Burke GA; Papworth; P.R.s)
Provenance- Brede Place, East Sussex, a former residence of the Frewen family from 1712-1936
£1,000-1,500
Condition:
Oil on three panels which have now separated at the joints but would readily clamp back together, paint a little dirty but otherwise all looks original, housed in the original gold and black painted frame, old iron hanging loop at the top, no labels or inscriptions verso.