Thomas Kinaston (d.1752)
John Shackleton (fl.1742 – London 1767)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1730 (?) (signed and dated) - 1739
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
743 x 610 mm (29 1/4 x 24 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Erddig, Wrexham
NT 1151375
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Thomas Kinaston (d.1752) by John Shackleton (fl.1742 – London 1767), signed and dated, lower right: J. Shac [leton]/pinxit 173[?]. A head-and-shoulders oval painted portrait of the second son of William and Jane Kinaston of Ruyton Hall, to right, wearing a dark green coat, white cravat and grey wig. A painting in the style of Highmore or Richardson.
Provenance
Given by Philip Yorke III (1905 – 1978) along with the estate, house and contents to the National Trust in 1973
Credit line
Erddig, The Yorke Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: Signed and dated, lower right: 'J.Shackleton / pinxt 173?'. Recto: Labelled, on paper stuck on frame: [Thoma]s Kinaston, 2nd Son of William, & Jane [Kinas]ton, of Ruyton Hall, Salop. Ob.1752.
Makers and roles
John Shackleton (fl.1742 – London 1767), artist
References
Steegman 1957 John Steegman, A Survey of Portraits in Welsh Houses, Vol.I: North Wales, Cardiff, 1957, p.94 "PORTRAITS AT ERDDIG, WREXHAM 6. THOMAS KINASTON, ob.1752. 2nd s.of William Kinaston of Ruyton, Shropshire. J. Shaw 173? signed and dated very indistinctly with the last digit of the date illegible. 30 x 25. H. and s., to right.; weating olive-green coat."