Circle of Enoch Seeman, Polish / English c.1694-1745- Portrait of a Millington Hayford Esq. and his wife; oils on canvas, each 26.2 x 21.5 cm., a pair (2). The first bears inscriptions 'Millington Hayford Esq, born about the year 1700, died about the year 1745 Eight months before the birth of his only child, who subsequently became Lady Thorold: She died in the year 1807' (on an old label attached to the reverse), 'Charles Thorold given to him by his mother in law at Whittington Rectory Dec. 1849' (on an old label attached to the reverse of the stretcher), 'Left to my son Algernon G. Thorold' (on an old label attached to the reverse of the frame). The second bears inscriptions 'Mrs Beardsley, wife of George Beardsley Esq....' with details concerning her bing a widow in her nineteenth year before then marrying 'Millington Hayford Esq. of Millington Hall' (on an old label attached to the reverse), 'Charles Thorold given to him by his mother in law at Whittington Rectory Dec. 1849' (on an old label attached to the reverse of the stretcher), 'Left to my son Algernon G. Thorold' (on an old label attached to the reverse of the frame). Provenance: Private Collection, UK.Please refer to department for condition report