Girl in a White Satin Dress, fingering a rose
possibly Arthur Pond (London 1701 – Rome 1758)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1750
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1587 x 1219 mm (62 ½ x 48 in)
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Seaton Delaval Hall, Northumberland
NT 1276833
Caption
The identity of the girl is unknown, but she was once called Henrietta Maria. The pose and dress seem to derive from Van Dyck’s portrait of Lady Mary Villiers, later Duchess of Lennox and Richmond, in the Buckingham Family Piece (Rubenshuis, Antwerp), but the girl’s features are different. The girl is very similar to the representation of Rhoda Delaval in the group portrait of the 'Gay Delavals' at Doddington, supposedly by Van Aken.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Girl in a White Satin Dress, holding a rose, possibly by Arthur Pond (London 1701 - 1758), after Sir Anthony Van Dyck (Antwerp 1599 - London 1641), ?1750. A full-length portrait of a girl, wearing a silver coloured satin dress; a rose bush to the left.
Full description
Once called Henrietta Maria (intended to be Princess Mary?) – but the sitter is neither; pose and dress seem to derive from Lady Mary Villiers, later Duchess of Lennox and Richmond, in the Buckingham Family Piece (Rubenshuis, Antwerp), but the girl’s features are different. She is actually very similar to Rhoda in the group portrait of the ‘Gay Delavals’ at Doddington, supposedly by Van Aken, and it seem plausible that she was inspired by this picture – or vice-versa.
Provenance
possibly the picture painted for Rhoda Apreece, Mrs. Francis Blake Delaval, by Arthur Pond: see Louise Lippincott, ‘Arthur Pond’s Journal of Receipts and Expenses, 1734-1750’, The Fifty-fourth Volume of the Walpole Society: 1988 [1991], p.314, under June 1750: “Mrs Delaval whole length Van Dyk £10.10s”. [10 guineas; the amount is clearly too little to represent a painting actually by Van Dyck that Pond would have been selling to her]; on loan from Lord Hastings. Note: This was purchased by the Trust by private Treaty in February 2012. Previously LH....
Makers and roles
possibly Arthur Pond (London 1701 – Rome 1758), artist after Sir Anthony Van Dyck (Antwerp 1599 - London 1641), artist