Susan Jay and her Dog Type:unstretched canvas both in the background architecture

both in the background architecture and in the foreground figures

and hath altered or added nothing about it

in which the model appears to be the same (sold Sotheby's Colonnade

although sporting scenes and hunt trophies were more usual subjects than live domestic creatures

between 1638 and 1641

Susan Jay and her Dog Type:unstretched canvas both in the background architectureThe date is illegible, but is recorded in a label formerly on the verso (now on file) as 1821. The donor provided an undated note concerning Susan Jay, saying she became a Catholic convert and entered a convent at Croyden, upon which her father condemned her portrait to the attic; it descended through her younger brother, John Jay, at the death of whose widow the portrait was recieved by Mrs Mason who presented it to Dulwich.