Captain Vernon
Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1670 - 1699
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1245 x 1003 mm (49 x 39 1/2 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall (Children's Country House), Derbyshire
NT 653219
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Captain Vernon by Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646/9 - London 1723), inscribed bottom left: Captn. Vernon. A three-quarter-length portrait of a young man facing, gazing at the spectator, in a long brown wig, wearing a loose grey-brown classical dress with lace cravat, leaning on a pedestal with his left elbow on which is a red drape, his right hand on his hip.
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
'Captain Vernon'. Manner of Seeman
Makers and roles
Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Enoch Seeman the younger (Gdańsk c.1694 – London 1744), artist