Enoch Seeman

The earliest known painting by the younger Seeman is a group portrait of the Bisset family in the style of the portraitist Godfrey Kneller, now held at Castle Forbes in Grampian, Scotland, and dated by an inscription to 1708.

As a painter to the British royal court, Seeman the Younger completed coronation portraits of George II and his wife Queen Caroline of Ansbach in around 1730.

The Metropolitan Museum in New York, US, owns his rendering of Sir James Dashwood, described by the Grove Dictionary of Art as 'Exceptionally lively'.

It had previously been owned by George Osborne, 10th Duke of Leeds and hung in the dining room at Hornby Castle.

Despite royal commissions, Seeman the younger's work is thought of as less accomplished than that of the top flight of portraitists because of his lesser attention to detail in the facial features of different sitters.