Portrait of James Boevey (1622–1696) aged 11, inscribed: "James Boevey An(n)o Dom(ini): 1634 Aetatis Suae 11 ("A.D. 1634 of his age 11"). In 1973 the painting was in the collection of Mr F.B.Watkins, owner of Flaxley Abbey, Gloucestershire. An inferior 19th-century copy was painted and published in Crawley-Boevey, A.W.C., The Perverse Widow (1898). MacDermot, E.T. stated: "The original canvas shows only that it was painted in 1634 when its subject was eleven years old, the title being added later. This led Mr Crawley-Boevey to suggest (in his "Notes on the Antiquities at Flaxley Abbey" (1912)) that the portrait was of Boevey's nephew, Abraham Clarke, who was eleven in the latter part of 1634. He overlooked the fact that James Boevey's twelfth birthday was not until 7 May 1634 and the family tradition has always been that it is a companion portrait to that of his sister Joanna, painted when she was eleven in 1616. It is listed as such in the family records and undoubtedly portrays Boevey"[1]Armorials of James Boevey (1622–1695) as shown on his mural monument in the Lumley Chapel, nr. St Dunstan's Church, Cheam, Surrey: Ermine, on a bend sable three bezants
James Boevey (1622–1696) (pronounced "Boovey")[2] was an English merchant, lawyer and philosopher of Huguenot parentage.
^MacDermot, Edward T., The History of the Forest of Exmoor, Revised Edition, 1973
