Heneage Montagu (1670/1-1698), aged 3
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
3 Apr 1674 (inscribed)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1232 x 1003 mm (48 1/2 x 39 1/2 in)
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1129126
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Heneage Montagu (1670/1-1698), aged 3, British (English) School, inscribed top right in yellow: Master Montagu / Son to the Earl of Manchester and, bottom left: Aetat: Suæ 3 April 14 1674. A full-length portrait of a young child, walking to left, head facing, brown curly shoulder-length hair, wearing a short embroidered tunic with orange cloak, legs and feet bare, holding a dove in both hands; landscape background and base of column with relief with satyr, left. One of the sons of Robert, 3rd Earl of Manchester, probably his third son, the Heneage Montagu who was Master of the Jewel Office, 1696 and died at Venice in 1698 whither he had accompanied his brother.
Provenance
In 1811 inventory and thence by descent until, following the death of Edward William Spencer Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire (1895 - 1950), Hardwick Hall and its contents were accepted by HM Treasury in part payment of death duties and transferred to the National Trust, in 1959
Credit line
Hardwick Hall, The Devonshire Collection (acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to The National Trust in 1959)
Marks and inscriptions
top right Master Montagu/Son to the Earl of Manchester/Aetat Sue 3 Aprilio 15 1674
Makers and roles
British (English) School, artist Pierre Mignard the elder (Troyes 1612 - Paris 1695), artist Jacob Huysmans (Antwerp c.1630 – London 1696), artist
References
Collins Baker 1912 C. H. Collins Baker, Lely and the Stuart Portrait Painters, London, 1912, Vol.I, pp.216 & 217, II, p. 155, No. 22: