The Reverend Richard Underhill, but really William Underhill of Ludlow (1588 - 1656)
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1650 - 1655
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
737 x 622 mm (29 x 24 1/2 in)
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Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 533845
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Reverend Richard Underhill, but really William Underhill of Ludlow (1588 - 1656), British (English) School, circa 1650. A three-quarter-length portrait of a clergyman, he is positioned slightly to right with a direct gaze to the spectator. He is wearing black ropes and cap, with white collar and cuffs. He has grey curly hair as well as a grey beard and moustache. He is holding papers in his right hand (writing effaced). A coat of arms featuring an argent a chevron between three trefoils flipped, vert, three bezants is painted at the top left, above his right shoulder. In an ornate, carved, rectangular gilt frame. The sitter is understood to be William Underhill of Ludlow (1588-1656), brother to Fulke (d.1598) and Hercules (d.1658) and father to Sir William Underhill (1624-1710) who inherited his uncles’ estate and married Alice Lucy, one of Sir Thomas Lucy’s daughters. His painting can also be seen at Charlecote (533840).
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