Sarah Morley, Mrs John Hammond, as a Girl
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1695 - 1700
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
762 x 635 in (30 x 25 in)
Order this imageCollection
Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 533830
Summary
OiI painting on canvas, Sarah Morley, Mrs John Hammond, as a Girl, British (English) School, circa 1695/1700. A half-length portrait of Sarah Morley, she is seated and facing the spectator. She is wearing a gold coloured dress with white detail showing at the neck. She has a blue cloak held up in her left hand and draped around her right arm. Red and white flowers sit on a table on the right, on which also sits a small white dog, looking up at her. In rectangular gilt frame. Sarah Morley was the daughter of John Morley and the wife of Reverend John Hammond (NT 533839).Her son Rev John Hammond Lucy inherited the Charlecote Estate.
Provenance
Presented to the National Trust by Sir Montgomerie Fairfax-Lucy (1896 – 1965), two years after the death of his father, Sir Henry Ramsay-Fairfax, 3rd Bt (1870 – 1944), with Charlecote Park and its chief contents, in 1946
Credit line
Charlecote Park, The Fairfax-Lucy Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
British (English) School, artist previously catalogued as attributed to Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1659 - London 1743), artist
References
Nisser 1927 Wilhelm Nisser, Michael Dahl and the Contemporary Swedish School of Painting in England, Uppsala, 1927, no. 90