George Vertue (1684-1756)
Jonathan Richardson the elder (London 1665 – London 1745)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1733
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1435 x 1320 mm
Order this imageCollection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 207817
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, George Vertue (1684-1756), by Jonathan Richardson the elder (London 1665 – London 1745). Recorded at Wimpole, as one of the Hardwicke collection of historical portraits, in 1880. Then wrongly considered a portrait of the 2nd Earl of Oxford's great friend, the poet and diplomat Matthew Prior, it closely resembles Richardson's head-and-shoulders of the connoisseur George Vertue (1733 National Portrait Gallery). Vertue was a friend of the Earl, and catalogued his pictures after his death.
Provenance
Bequeathed by Elsie Kipling, Mrs George Bambridge (1896 - 1976), daughter of Rudyard Kipling, to the National Trust together with Wimpole Hall, all its contents and an estate of 3,000 acres
Credit line
Wimpole Hall, The Bambridge Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Jonathan Richardson the elder (London 1665 – London 1745)