Reclining Venus, Lambert Sustris (attributed to), c. 1540 - c. 1560

…; collection Joseph Neeld (1789-1856), Grittleton House, near Chippenham, Wilts, 1854, as Titian;{Waagen II, 1854, p. 244; note RMA.} his brother, Sir John Neeld (1805-91), Grittleton House, near Chippenham, Wilts; his son, Sir Algernon William Neeld (1846-1900), Grittleton House, near Chippenham, Wilts; his brother, Sir Audley Dallas Neeld (1849-1941), Grittleton House, near Chippenham, Wilts; by descent to Lionel William Inigo-Jones, from 1942 named Neeld (?-1956), Grittleton House, near Chippenham, Wilts;{Lionel William Inigo-Jones was the descendant of Joseph Neeld through an illegitimate daughter.} his sale, London (Christie’s), 13 July 1945, no. 42, as Titian (‘Venus, of the Villa Borghese’), £ 115 10 s, to Fenouil;{Copy RKD.} …; acquired through the mediation of Thomas Harris, Garden Lodge Studio, London, by the museum, 1946

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