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WITHDRAWN - Attributed to Herman van der Myn [1684-1741]- Portrait of Judge Dormer [1649-1726], seated three-quarter length, in judicial robes of scarlet and ermine, wearing full length wig:- oil on canvas 125 x 100cm, contained within a carved wood and gilded frame. * Provenance. By Dormer family descent. * Notes. Robert Dormer was a descendant of the Buckinghamshire family of that name, a branch of which was ennobled by James I with the title of Lord Dormer of Wenge. Robert Dormer was brought up to his father's profession at Lincoln's Inn, which he entered in May 1669, and was called to the bar in January 1675. He married Mary Blake, the daughter of Sir Richard Blake and they had four daughters. He entered parliament in 1698 as a member for Aylesbury. He was called to the bench in 1706, as a judge of the Common Pleas, where he sat in judgement for just over twenty years.