Lady Anne Rushout (d. 1747)
Allan Ramsay (Edinburgh 1713 - Dover 1784)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1743 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1283 x 1016 mm (50 ½ x 40 in)
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Chirk Castle, Wrexham
NT 1171133
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Lady Anne Rushout (d. 1747) by Allan Ramsay (Edinburgh 1713 – Dover 1784), signed and dated, bottom right: A Ramsay 1743. A three-quarter-length portrait, facing, seated in golden -brown satin dress with blue drape. Anne was the daughter of George Compton, 4th Earl of Northampton, and the wife of Sir John Rushout, 4th Bt. of Northwick Park and Harrow whom she married in 1729. Their daughter Elizabeth Rushout (No. 45, 80 and 93) married Richard Myddelton of Chirk (79) in 1761.
Full description
Associated with Chirk Castle
Provenance
By descent in the Myddelton family - in house catalogue, c.1900, in Drawing Room (shown on diagrammatic hang [west wall, above left door] and manuscript picture list) as “11. Lady Ann Rushout.” - until with some of the contents, in 1978, that were acquired along with Chirk Castle from Lt-Colonel Ririd Myddelton (1902–1988) by the National Land Fund and handed, on loan for 99 years, to the Secretary of State for Wales (In 1981 Chirk was transferred into the ownership of the National Trust). Purchased by the National Trust from Mr Guy Myddelton in 2023.
Credit line
Chirk Castle, The Myddelton Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: A. Ramsay 1743, (signed and dated bottom right) Verso: Inscribed on old label on back of frame: Drawing Room No.8/Lady Anne Rushout.
Makers and roles
Allan Ramsay (Edinburgh 1713 - Dover 1784), artist
References
Steegman 1957 John Steegman, A Survey of Portraits in Welsh Houses, Vol.I: North Wales, Cardiff, 1957, p. 86 Smart and Ingamells 1999 Alastair Smart and John Ingamells (ed.), Allan Ramsay A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, New Haven and London, Yale, 1999, no. 454, fig. 145