Barbara Wanley, Mrs Matthew Hutton (d.1750)
John Verelst (fl. 1698 - London 1734)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1715 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1251 x 997 mm (49 1/4 x 39 1/4 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Erddig, Wrexham (Accredited Museum)
NT 1151319
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Barbara Wanley, Mrs Matthew Hutton (d.1750) of Newnham, Hertfordshire, by John Verelst (fl 1698 - London 1734), signed and dated 1715. A three-quarter length portrait of the mother of Dorothy Hutton, Mrs Philip Yorke, seated to right, in an architectural interior; a terrace seen through an archway at the left; she wears a yellow satin dress, a long cloak covering her head and shoulders to which she raises her hand.
Provenance
Given by Philip Yorke III (1905 – 1978) along with the estate, house and contents to the National Trust in 1973
Credit line
Erddig, The Yorke Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: Signed and dated, bottom right: Jo: Verelst- / P: 1715-
Makers and roles
John Verelst (fl. 1698 - London 1734), artist
References
Hutton 1770 Inventory of the late James Hutton's house in Park Lane, 27-28 July 1770 , "A Lady ditto [=Verelst] Mrs Hutton [added later]" Erddig 1800-29 Inventory of contents of Erddig, 1800-1829, "Mrs. Hutton - - Verelst" Steegman 1957 John Steegman, A Survey of Portraits in Welsh Houses, Vol.I: North Wales, Cardiff, 1957, p.94, no.5 Rothwell 2018 James Rothwell, ‘Taste Contained and Liberated: Women as Patrons and Possessors of Silver in Stuart and Georgian Britain’, National Trust Historic Houses & Collections Annual, 2018, pp.29, 31