Possibly Thomas Peter Strickland (1701 - 1754) and Jarrard Strickland (1704 - 1791) as Boys

British (English) School. Oil painting on canvas, Possibly Thomas Peter (1701 - 1754) and Jarrard (1704 - 1791) Strickland as Boys, English School, circa 1705. One in blue tunic and scarlet robe with a dog and the younger in blue robe with a bow (for shooting arrows). Painted at the exiled court in France. This picture and the next were reputed to show two of the sons of Robert Strickland of Catterick (1639–1709), Treasurer to Mary of Modena in exile: this one Francis (1691–1746), being led by the hand by her son James III. But both pictures were patently painted in England after 1700 by a provincial artist, yet none of the Stricklands of Catterick returned from exile before 1718, nor does the older boy here display any signs of royalty. They must rather be the two sons of Sir Thomas’s eldest son, Walter (1675–1715), who was allowed to return from Saint-Germain to Sizergh in 1699, and who could never have employed an expensive London portrait-painter. The two boys shown here were founders of the senior and junior lines of the Stricklands of Sizergh. Sizergh Castle, Cumbria