Mary Vere Robartes, Mrs Thomas II Hunt (d. 1758)
Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1659 - London 1743)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1656 - 1743
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1270 x 1016 mm (50 x 40 in)
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Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 884959
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Mary Vere Robartes, Mrs Thomas II Hunt (d. 1758) by Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1656 – London 1743). A three-quarter length portrait of the wife of Thomas Hunt II (1684 - 1739). She is seated on the right, facing to the left in a landscape, head facing, flowers in her right hand in her lap, wearing white satin dress and blue stole.
Provenance
by descent, until acquired by Victor, 8th Viscount Clifden (1887 - 1974), and given to the National Trust in 1957
Credit line
Lanhydrock, The Robartes Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: On gilt label on frame: MARY VERE, d. of Honble Russell Robartes/wife of Thomas Hunt./SIR GODFREY KNELLER Verso: Label reaffixed to new stretcher: Lady [struck through] Mary Vere Robartes / sister to Henry Earl of Radnor / and wife of Thomas Hunt / Painted by Sir G. Kneller
Makers and roles
Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1659 - London 1743), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723), artist