Mary Assheton, Lady Curzon (1695-1776)
manner of John Verelst (fl 1698 - London 1734) and Maria Verelst (Vienna 1680 - London 1744)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1700 - 1799
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1270 x 1016 mm (50 x 40 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 108810
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Mary Assheton, Lady Curzon (1695-1776) in the manner of John Verelst (fl 1698 - London 1734) and Maria Verelst (Vienna 1680 - London 1744). A three-quarter-length portrait of a young woman, seated under a tree facing, head inclined to the left, gazing at the spectator, dressed in white satin and holding a flowered hat in her lap with both hands. Under her right arm and lying across her lap is a shepherd's crook. Landscape setting to right with trees and distant horizon. Mary Assheton was the second of three daughters of Sir Ralph Assheton of Middleton. Her marriage to Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 4th Bt produced two surviving sons, Nathaniel, later lst Baron Scarsdale; and Assheton, later lst Viscount Curzon, from whom the Earls Howe and Barons de la Zouche descend. She is shown as a shepherdess, a common conceit in the poetry and painting of the period.
Provenance
; bought with part of the contents of Kedleston with the aid of the National Heritage Memorial Fund in 1987, when the house and park were given to the National Trust by Francis Curzon, 3rd Viscount Scarsdale (1924-2000)
Credit line
Kedleston Hall, The Scarsdale Collection (acquired with the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund and transferred to The National Trust in 1987)
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: label - painted - bottom of frame - black text on gold - MARY LADY CURZON BY SIR G KNELLER 1716 Verso: Inscribed on top bar of stretcher, in red paint: 15; and in pencil: No 21
Makers and roles
manner of John Verelst (fl 1698 - London 1734) and Maria Verelst (Vienna 1680 - London 1744), artist John Verelst (fl. 1698 - London 1734), artist Maria Verelst (Vienna 1680 - London 1744), artist previously catalogued as attributed to David d'Agar (fl. c.1724 - 1735), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Charles Jervas (Dublin 1675 – London 1739), artist
References
Anon 1874 “The Private Collections of England. No.X – Kedleston Hall”, The Athenæum, 1 August 1874, no.2440, p.150