Henry Ferrers Ferrers (formerly Croxon) (1848-1923)
Rebecca Dulcibella Orpen Ferrers, later Mrs Edward Henege Dering (1830 – 1923)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1850 - 1923
Materials
Oil on paper (oval)
Measurements
610 x 520 mm
Order this imageCollection
Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire (Accredited Museum)
On show at
Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire, Midlands, National Trust
NT 343532
Summary
Oil painting on paper (oval), Henry Ferrers Ferrers (formerly Croxon) by Rebecca Dulcibella Ferrers Orpen (1830-1923). An oval, head-and-shoulders portrait of the sitter, facing the spectator but with his head turned towards the left and looking in the same direction. He has short, fair hair with a long moustache and blue eyes. He wears a black jacket and a white shirt with a red cravat tied under the collar. A brown fur is draped over his right shoulder. He is set against a background of blue sky and white clouds. One of a pair of oval portraits in gilded frames. A companion to 343533, a portrait of Beatrice Petre, who became Henry Ferrers Ferrers wife. Henry Ferrers Ferrers (1848-1923). From 1885 his name was changed to Ferrers Ferrers; son of Boydell Croxton of Erway, Salop and Constance Charlotte Ferrers; married on 11 February 1879 the Hon. Beatrice Mary Petre (1858-1930) the daughter of Hon. Arthur Charles Augustus Petre (1827-1882) of Coptfold Hall, Essex (the son of William Henry Francis Petre, 11th Baron Petre) and Lady Katherine Howard (d.1882). They had three sons: (i) Edward Arthur Joseph Ferrers (1881-1934) (ii) Francis Compton Charles Ferrers (1882- killed in action 1918) (ii) Bernard Compton Ferrers (1884-1969)
Makers and roles
Rebecca Dulcibella Orpen Ferrers, later Mrs Edward Henege Dering (1830 – 1923), artist