(British, 1692–1780)Portrait of Barnabas Eveleigh Leigh (1703-1776), signed right "Jos. Highmore Pinx: 1734" and inscribed upper left, oil on canvas, 50 x 40 in.; 20th century gilt wood and composition frame, 56 x 45-5/8 in.; Note: Michael Clark-Jervoise, states in a letter dated 1994 that he was obliged to sell this portrait. He states he also owned a portrait of Johanna Leigh by Highmore and surmises that Barnabas may have been her brother. While he states that he does not know how the painting came into the Clark family, The Register of the Book of Marriages belonging to the parish of St. George, ed. by J.H. Chapman [and] (G.J. Armytage). 1725-1787, states that Barnabas Eveleigh Leigh married Catherine Clarke of Bobbington, June 21, 1742. It is my belief that the portrait descended from the sitter to Michael Clark-Jervoise through the Clark family until it was sold in the 20th century. The lot is accompanied by much correspondence attempting to tie this portrait to the Lee family of Virginia, a thought that does not appear to be supported by the responses. It is also accompanied by two authorized facsimile volumes of the doctoral thesis titled "Joseph Highmore" prepared by Alison Shepherd Lewis, Harvard University, April 1975. It is also accompanied the book by Warren Mild, Joseph Highmore of Holborn Row, 1990.; Provenance: Property of the sitter, Barnabas Eveleigh Leigh; By descent to Major Clark-Jervoise; Ex-collection Michael Clark-Jervoise, Clevedge House, North Warnborough Highmore; Old Hall Gallery, Ltd., Sussex (documents from purchase); A Charleston Collection lined, restretched on new stretcher with inscription from former stretcher retained, retouch, crackle, craquelure, (the lot is accompanied by a conservation report from Westlake Conservators dated 1987); frame with minor losses