Margaret Lygon (neé Cocks), Countess of Hardwicke (c. 1695-1761)
Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1719
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1270 x 1015 mm
Order this imageCollection
Antony Private Collection, Cornwall
NT 353044
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Margaret Lygon (neé Cocks), Countess of Hardwicke (c. 1695-1761), studio copy after original by Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646/9 - London 1723), circa 1719. Inscribed bottom right 'MARGARET daughter/ of CHARLES COCKS/ NIECE OF/ LORD CHANCELLOR SOMERS/ AND WIFE OF/ LORD CHANCELLOR HARDWICKE./ Obit. 1761.' The original portrait by Kneller is at Wimpole (NT 207897). Margaret Cocks was the daughter of Charles Cocks (1646–1727), MP for Worcester and Droitwich, and Mary Somers, and a niece of John Somers, 1st Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord High Chancellor of England under William III. She married first William Lygon (died 1716) and later Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), in 1719. Tablet on frame inscribed 'W. Hoare pinxt'.
Provenance
By inheritance and descent, via Jemina Yorke, Mrs Pole-Carew (d. 1804); on loan from Trustees of Antony.
Makers and roles
Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723), artist studio of Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723), artist William Hoare of Bath, RA (Eye 1707 – Bath 1792), artist