Lady Mary Neville, Lady Dacre (1524-c.1576) (with a Portrait of her imprisoned and later executed first Husband, Thomas Fiennes, 9th Lord Dacre (1515 - 1541)
after Hans Eworth (Antwerp c.1525 – ?London after 1578)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1700 - 1799
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
775 x 635 mm
Order this imageCollection
Vyne Estate, Hampshire
NT 719399
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Lady Mary Neville, Lady Dacre (1524-c.1576), after Hans Eworth (Antwerp c.1525 – ?London after 1578) of 1540. Inscribed on arm of chair in 17th/18th century hand: Mary/daugr of Geo. Nevil/L Abergaveny/Wife to Tho./Fienes/Ld. Dacres. The original painting, formerly in the Barrett-Lennard collection, is in the National Gallery of Canada. A half-length portrait, with pen poised, for writing in a book at a table, of the daughter of George Neville, Lord Abergavenny, and the wife of Thomas Fiennes, 9th Lord Dacre (c.1516-1541). The portrait included in the picture is of her husband, who had been executed for murder in 1541, inscribed on frame: 1540/ÆTATIS 24. She is depicetd, possibly still in mourning dress, with a forget-me-not at her breast although her husband was executed some years earlier for his involvement in the killing of a gamekeeper. In 1558, Dacre's title and assets were reinstated as the result of a petition, which may well be what his widow is drafting in the book.
Provenance
In the list "temp. Anthony [recte John] Chute", as in the [Oak] Gallery; 1880s Notes (as by Holbein), in the Chapel Parlour; bequeathed with The Vyne, estate and contents by Sir Charles Chute, 1st Bt (1879-1956)
Credit line
The Vyne, The Chute Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
after Hans Eworth (Antwerp c.1525 – ?London after 1578), artist
References
Cust 1913 Lionel Cust, 'The Painter HE', Walpole Society, II, 1913, pp.1-44, p.23, Pl.1