No. 140 First Viscount Weymouth
DIED 1714.
Black dress. Embroidered collar. Long hair. White sleeves.
No. 141 Mr. Kelifet
Dressed in black. Ruff. Pointed beard. Arms of Kelifet in corner of picture.
This portrait is supposed to be that of Richard Kelifet, Esq. of ‘The Place,’ Egham, county Surrey.
He was chief groom of Queen Elizabeth’s removing wardrobe, and yeoman of Her Majesty’s standing wardrobe, and a most faithful servant of Her Majesty, according to an inscription on his monument in Egham Church. His daughter Cicely married Sir John Denham, Baron of the Exchequer, to whom she brought ‘The Place,’ at Egham, as her dower.
In 1673 this house was occupied by a connection of the Longleat family, John Thynne, Esq., when (we are told) ‘it contained many valuable and curious pictures.’ This circumstance may possibly be a clew to the fact that the portrait above-named finds a place in the collection of the Marquis of Bath.