Mamie Wheaton, British, early-mid 19th century- Portrait of Thomas Benett of Norton Bavant (1588-1654); oil on canvas, signed and dated ‘Maimie. Wheaton / 1836’ (lower right), inscribed ‘Thomas Benett Esqr / married / Elizabeth...

Mamie Wheaton, British, early-mid 19th century- Portrait of Thomas Benett of Norton Bavant (1588-1654); oil on canvas, signed and dated ‘Maimie. Wheaton / 1836’ (lower right), inscribed ‘Thomas Benett Esqr / married / Elizabeth Moore’ (on the column base lower right), bears stencilled inscription on the reverse, 75.8 x 63.5 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, UK. Note: A 19th-century copy after an original 17th-century portrait of Thomas Benett of Norton Bavant (1588-1654), which once hung in Pythouse (Pyt House) near the village of Tisbury in Wiltshire. The Pyt family lived on the land where the house sits from 1225 until about 1651, when, as Royalist supporters, they were forced to sell in order to pay fines levied against them by Parliament following the Civil War. At this time the family name had been changed to Benett, possibly as homage to the Benedictine Abbey of Shaftesbury. In around 1725 the current Pythouse was built, replacing the earlier Elizabethan house. Thomas Benett (sometimes spelt Bennett or Bennitt) married Elizabeth Moore (1606-1681) in 1616 and the couple had one son, William Benett. The original portrait would have been painted at some point between 1616 and 1654.
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