Joyce Pye, Mrs Henry Calverley
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1670 - 1699
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
787 x 673 mm (31 x 26 1/2 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 584386
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Joyce Pye, Mrs Henry Calverley, British (English) School, late 17th century. Inscribed in the later 18th century, with name of sitter, top right: JOYCE.2d.wife of H.CALVERLEY./Daugt. of Sir Wr. PYE.; and on the back: Joyce, wife of Henry Calverley daughter of Sir Walter Pye. A half-length portrait of a mature woman, facing, gazing at the spectator, holding a piece of paper in her right hand on which is written: Silence O Walter Calverley./This is all that I will leave w.c./Time was I might have given/thee more/Now thanke thy selfe that/this is soe. It is addressed to her son and apparently was her legacy. Wearing a widow's peak headdress, tied under the chin, a black dress and a single strand pearl necklace.
Provenance
Given with the property to the National Trust in 1941 by Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan, 3rd Bt (1870 – 1958)
Credit line
Wallington, The Trevelyan Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Back of canvas: Joyce, wife of Henry Calverley daughter of Sir Walter Pye
Makers and roles
British (English) School, artist