ENGLISH SCHOOL (CIRCA 1680)PORTRAIT OF FRANCIS VANACKER, HALF-LENGTH, IN AN EMBROIDERED CLOAK; AND PORTRAIT OF HIS WIFE, CORNELIA BOEVEY, IN A MAUVE DRESSOil on canvas, a pair73 x 61cm (28½ x 24 in.) oval (2)Provenance:Possibly at the sitter's home, Erith Manor, Kent Probably inherited by Catherina Boevey in 1702 and thence by descent Sold Flaxley Abbey, Gloucestershire, Bruton, Knowles & Co., 29 March-5th April 1960, lot 1323Bought by Mr and Mrs Frederick Baden-Watkins and thence by descent at Flaxley Abbey Literature:A Brief Account of the Antiquities, Family Pictures and Other Notable Articles at Flaxley Abbey, co. Gloucester, Bristol, 1912, pp. 11, no. 7.Francis Vanacker (d.1686, aged 38) was High Sheriff of Kent and a descendant from a London merchant family. He married Cornelia Boevey (d.1702) in 1671, who was the only daughter of the merchant, lawyer and philosopher James Boevey (1622-1696) by his second wife Isabella de Visscher. Upon Francis' death in 1686 Cornelia remarried to William Bateman of Clifton. She died at Erith Manor in 1702 without issue making it likely that this pair of portraits were inherited by her sister-in-law Catherina, owing to the early death of her brother William in 1692.