Lady Grace Talbot, Mrs Henry Cavendish (b.1562 – after 1625)
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1591
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
1118 x 902 mm (44 x 35 1/2 in)
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1129101
Summary
Oil painting on panel, Lady Grace Talbot, Mrs Henry Cavendish (b.1562 – after 1625), English School, inscribed above: MORS POTIUS QUAM DEDICUS ANNO DNI. 1591./ÆTATIS SVÆ.19 [?bad restoration] and later inscription under the table: D ... Grace Talbot 1591. A full-length portrait, facing, standing, wearing a black dress, white lawn collar and cuffs, a Tudor rose in her right hand, a black feather fanhanging from her left hand, a French prayer book open at Psalm 16 ("Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust...") on a table, beside which are virginals; a classical pilaster right and a gatehouse seen through a window, left. Top right, hanging from column, with lozenge azure, a lion rampant. She was the third daughter of George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury (c.1528-90), for whom she is in mourning here, and his first wife, Gertrude Manners, daughter of Thomas Manners, Earl of Rutland. She married, in 1567, Henry Cavendish (1550-1616), eldest son of Sir William Cavendish (1505?-1557) and Elizabeth Hardwick (c.1527-1608) and died without heirs.
Provenance
By descent until, following the death of the 10th Duke of Devonshire (1895 - 1950), Hardwick Hall and its contents were accepted by HM Treasury in part payment of death duties and transferred to the National Trust, in 1959
Credit line
Hardwick Hall, The Devonshire Collection (acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to The National Trust in 1959)
Marks and inscriptions
Painted to right of sitter's head - MORS POTIUS QUAM DEDICUS ANNO NO. 1591./AETATIS SUAE.19. On label at bottom of frame LADY GRACE TALBOT
Makers and roles
British (English) School, artist