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| Keywords: JamesBoeveyPortraitFlaxleyCollection.jpg en Portrait of James Boevey 1622-1696 inscribed James Boevey An n o Dom ini 1634 Aetatis Suae 11 In 1973 the painting was in the collection of Mr F B Watkins owner of Flaxley Abbey Gloucestershire An inferior 19th c copy was painted and published in Crawley-Boevey A W C The Perverse Widow Being Passages from the Life of Catharina Wife of William Boevey 1898 MacDermot E T stated The original canvas shows only that it was painted in 1634 when its subject was eleven years old the title being added later This led Mr Crawley-Boevey to suggest in his Notes on the Antiquities at Flaxley Abbey 1912 that the portrait was of Boevey's nephew Abraham Clarke who was eleven in the latter part of 1634 He overlooked the fact that James Boevey's twelfth birthday was not until 7th May 1634 and the family tradition has always been that it is a companion portrait to that of his sister Joanna painted when she was eleven in 1616 It is listed as such in the family records and undoubtedly portrays Boevey Published as frontispiece to MacDermot Edward T The History of the Forest of Exmoor Revised Edition 1973 Original was in 1973 collection of Mr F B Watkins of Flaxley Abbey Unknown artist Published as frontispiece to MacDermot Edward T The History of the Forest of Exmoor Revised Edition 1973 Original was in 1973 collection of Mr F B Watkins of Flaxley Abbey 1634 Simonsbath PD-old-100 | ||||
