Miss Weston, Mrs Tooke
John Riley (London 1646 – London 1691)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1682
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1232 x 1016 mm (48 1/2 x 40 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall (Children's Country House), Derbyshire
NT 653196
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Miss Weston, Mrs Tooke, John Riley (London 1646 – London 1691), 1682. A three-quarter-length portrait of a young woman, seated, turned slightly to the right, head turned slightly to the left, gazing at the spectator, her left hand holding a fold of her cloak and her right hand gesturing to the right, she has dark brown hair and a ringlet has fallen on her right shoulder, she is wearing a pale brown dress over a white chemise and a red cloak fastened to her right shoulder and falling down across her lap, on the left is a brown silk drape falling to the left and behind her on the right is a spiral column behind which is a distant horizon with a sky. Possibly Jane Yard (née Weston) the wife of Robert Yarde, the sister of Lady Anne Vernon, aunt of Catherine, George Vernon's third wife. George paid 'Mr Royley' (John Riley) for her portrait in 1682. Jane Weston married Robert Yard in October 1681 and they had one child, Robert, b.1687. Other possibilities for this portrait include another of Lady Anne Vernon's sisters, Elizabeth Weston who married barrister, Charles Tooke.
Provenance
Possibly the 'Ant Yardes' on paymet bill to Riley on April 9, 1681; 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
Mrs Took, sister of Thomas Vernon
Makers and roles
John Riley (London 1646 – London 1691), artist