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PHILIPPE MERCIER (GERMAN 1689 - 1760)PORTRAIT OF LADY MARY WATSON WENTWORTH, HALF-LENGTH, IN A BLUE DRESSOil on canvas, feigned ovalSigned and indistinctly dated '174*' (lower left)76.2 x 63.3cm (30 x 24¾ in.)Provenance: Sale, Bonhams, London, 12 - 13 April 2022, lot 40Literature:J. Ingamells and R. Raines, 'A Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings and Etchings of Philip Mercier', in The Walpole Society, 1976-78, vol. 46, p. 38, no. 123 (as dated 1742)The present portrait of Lady Mary-Watson Wentworth, the sister of the future Prime Minister, the 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, featured on the BBC's television programme, Fake or Fortune (series 5, programme 3), in which it was authenticated by Brian Allen, who in a letter to the vendor, dated 6 May 2016 confirmed the painting's authenticity and that it was the portrait listed as no. 123 in Ingamell's manuscript for the catalogue that the former edited when he was the Hon. Editor of the Walpole Society.