Susanna Hoare, Countess of Ailesbury (1732-1783)

Arthur Pond (London 1701 – Rome 1758)
National Trust Inventory Number 732196

Category	Paintings
Date	1757 (signed and dated)
Materials	Oil on canvas
Measurements	762 x 635 mm (30 x 25 in)
Place of origin

Collection	Stourhead, Wiltshire (Accredited Museum)
On show at	Stourhead, Wiltshire, South West, National Trust

Summary description

Oil painting on canvas, Susannah Hoare, Countess of Ailesbury (1732 - 1783) by Arthur Pond (London c.1700 – Rome 1758), signed and dated Pond pinxit 1757. A half-length oval painted portrait of a dark-haired woman, the daughter of Henry Hoare II, looking to the left, wearing a green and black dress with pink bow and a featherd hat. The costume is similar to that in the full-length portrait painted by Rubens of his wife, Helena Fourment, now in the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon.

Provenance

By inheritance by the sitter's brother-in-law, Sir Richrad Haore, 1st Bt; given to the National Trust along with the house, its grounds, and the rest of the contents by Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Bt (1865 – 1947) in 1946

Credit line

Stourhead, The Hoare Collection (The National Trust)

Makers and roles

Arthur Pond (London 1701 – Rome 1758)

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Collection	Stourhead, Wiltshire (Accredited Museum) (6132)
Periods	18th century (81523)
Maker	Arthur Pond (London 1701 – Rome 1758) (49)
Subjects	Susanna Hoare, Countess of Ailesbury (1732-1783) (1)
Object Type	Oil painting (11620)

Record Status

Enhanced