John Talbot (?1717-1778)
Thomas Gainsborough RA (Sudbury 1727 - London 1788)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1760 - 1765
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
762 x 635 mm (30 x 25 in)
Place of origin
Bath
Order this imageCollection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 996300
Caption
John Talbot was the son of John Ivory Talbot and Mary, daughter of Lord Mansel of Margam. He inherited Lacock from his father and married Elizabeth Stone, daughter of James Stone of Bradbury Manor in 1742. He was also a British Member of Parliament for Marlborough 1747-1754. This image was painted in Bath in the 1760s by the city’s most fashionable artist Thomas Gainsborough, and now hangs in the Blue Parlour at Lacock.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, John Talbot (?1717 - 1778), by Thomas Gainsborough RA (1727-1788). A head-and-shoulders to right, left hand in waistcoat, wearing a black coat, white stock and lace at wrists. Son of John Ivory Talbot (11 and 58). Painted in the early 1760s when Gainsborough was working in Bath.
Full description
eldest son of John Ivory Talbot and Mary Mansel; he inherited Lacock from his father; married Elizabeth, daughter of James Stone of Bradbury Manor. d.s.p. 1778.
Provenance
Given by Matilda Theresa Talbot (formerly Gilchrist-Clark) (1871 – 1958), who gave the Abbey, the village of Lacock and the rest of the estate to the National Trust in 1944, along with 96 of the family portraits and other pictures, in 1948
Credit line
Lacock Abbey, The Talbot Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Thomas Gainsborough RA (Sudbury 1727 - London 1788), artist
References
Waterhouse 1955 E. K. Waterhouse, 'Check List of Gainsborough Portraits' Walpole Society, XXXIII, 1955, p. 103 Waterhouse 1958 Ellis K. Waterhouse, Gainsborough, London 1958, no. 649