Martha Harcourt, Lady Vernon (1715-1794)
Enoch Seeman the younger (Gdańsk c.1694 – London 1744)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1744
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1245 x 991 mm (49 x 39 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall (Children's Country House), Derbyshire
NT 653146
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Martha Harcourt, Lady Vernon (1714-1777) by Enoch Seeman the younger (Gdańsk c.1694 – London 1744), circa 1744. A three-quarter-length portrait of a young woman, facing, her head turned slightly to the left, gazing at the spectator, leaning with her left elbow on a draped pedestal on the right and holding a blue cloak drawn up over her head, and holding a basket of flower in her right hand by her side, she is wearing a white satin dress with blue cloak. Sister of Simon Harcourt and the 3rd wife of George Venables Vernon, 1st Baron Vernon, whom she married on the 10th April 1744.
Provenance
Acquired from 10th Lord Vernon in lieu of death-duties after the death of Francis Lawrence William Venables-Vernon, 9th Lord Vernon (1889 -1963) and transferred to the National Trust in 1967 through the National Land Fund
Credit line
Sudbury Hall, The Vernon Collection (acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to the National Trust in 1967)
Marks and inscriptions
Enoch Seeman 1694 - 1745
Makers and roles
Enoch Seeman the younger (Gdańsk c.1694 – London 1744), artist