Hester Buckworth (d.1708)
studio of Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1670 - 1708
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1619 x 1600 mm (63 3/4 x 63 in)
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Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 1401247
Caption
The sitter was the fiancée and love of Ashe Windham’s life, before her sudden death from smallpox. It was on the rebound from this that he made his disastrous marriage to the heiress Elizabeth Dobyns a little over a year later. Hester was the daughter of a London merchant, Sir John Buckworth, 1st Bt. This portrait is taken from a signed portrait of ‘Sir John Buckworth and his family’ that was latterly in the collection of Sir Arthur Bryant.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Hester Buckworth (d.1708) by studio of Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646/9 - London 1723). Three-quarter-length portrait of a young woman, standing, full face portrait of a woman wearing a yellow dress and red clock on a terrace, trees behind to the right and an urn to the left. Hester was the fiancee of Ashe Windham.
Provenance
The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1969 by Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969)d with the hall and contents by Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906 – 1969)
Credit line
Felbrigg Hall, The Windham Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
studio of Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723), artist