The Hon. Anne Boteler, Countess of Newport and later Countess of Portland (c.1610 – 1669)
after Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – London 1680)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1630 - 1669
Materials
Oil on canvas (oval)
Measurements
740 x 620 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1129269
Caption
Anne Boteler, Countess of Newport, and later Countess of Portland was the youngest of six daughters of John Boteler, created Baron Boteler of Bramfield, Hertfordshire. Her sister was Olivia Boteler, wife of Endymion Porter, who converted her to Catholicism in 1637. Around 1626/7 she married Mountjoy Blount, Baron Mountjoy (c.1597-1665/6), who was created 1st Earl of Newport in 1628. Lady Newport evidently latterly lived apart from her husband, and Parliamentary passes were granted to her to travel to France, and the West of England. She had been allowed by the House of Lords to remove ‘furniture’ from the Tower of London - of which her husband was Constable - some time before 11 June 1643. After her husband's death in 1665/6, she was remarried in 1667 to Thomas Weston, 4th & last Earl of Portland (1609-1688) but died shortly after, in 1669. This is adapted from a three-quarter length of c.1660 by Lely in the Clarendon Collection.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Hon. Anne Boteler, Countess of Newport and later Countess of Portland (c.1610 – 1669), after Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – London 1680). Oval. Bust portrait, profile to left, head almost facing and looking up, wearing green satin dress with white and blue slashed sleeves.
Provenance
In Lady Louisa Cavendish 1860 catalogue of Hardwick Hall; thence by inheritance until, following the death of Edward William Spencer Cavendish, 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 (National Trust)
Makers and roles
after Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – London 1680), artist