Spanish School, circa 1700/Portrait of Anne-Marie de la Tremouille (1642-1722) Princesse Des Ursins/head and shoulders, wearing a pearl necklace, earrings and an elaborate lace headdress, her hair decorated with jewels/oil on canvas, 64cm x 50cm/together with two books on the sitter/Note: Anne-Marie de la Tremouille became the most influential figure at the court of Philip V of Spain as chief of Queen Marie Luisa's hoehold. She is credited with the introduction of the essence of bitter oranges as a fashionable fragrance/Provenance: Purchased by George Villiers while Ambassador in Madrid in the 1830s and thence by decent until purchased at Sotheby's Lot 239 December 2010/Literature: Lady Theresa Lewis, Lives of the Friends and Contemporaries of Lord Chancellor Clarendon, vol. III, London 1852, pp. 398-9;R. Gibson, Catalogue of Portraits in the Collection of the Earl of Clarendon, London 1977, p. 123/see illtration CONDITION REPORT: Condition information is not ually provided in the description of the lot, but is available upon request. Further images and some condition reports can be viewed on our online catalogue at www.chorleys . The absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is without imperfection.