Portrait of a lady, traditionally believed to be Lettice Knollys, Lady Hampden – £6000 at Cheffins.
A portrait of a young Stuart woman, below, attributed to the Hungarian painter Johannes Priwitzer (fl.1626-35), topped the picture section in a two-day sale at Cheffins (22.5% buyer’s premium) of Cambridge.
The sitter is believed to depict the memorably named Lettice Knollys. Not to be confused with the notorious Tudor beauty of the same name (who married the dashing Earl of Leicester much to the anger of her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I), she was the second wife of English statesman John Hampden (c.1595-1643), a relation to Oliver Cromwell and a leading Parliamentarian in the run-up to the English Civil War.