Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset (1688-1765) and his Sister Lady Mary Sackville, later Duchess of Beaufort (1687-1705) as Children
Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1692 - circa 1693
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
2445 x 1530 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Knole, Kent
NT 129919
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset (1688-1765) and his sister Lady Mary Sackville, later Duchess of Beaufort (1687-1705) as Children by Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646/9 - London 1723), early 1690s, signed G. Kneller f. Full-length portraits as children, with a dog and deer in a park. He is gazing to the left and standing centre, wearing a pale mauve skirted coat stroking the head of a deer with his left hand. He also holds a garland of flowers stretching between both hands. She sits on the left, in a blue dress over a white chemise with a dog on her lap and a gold cloak over her right knee. Parkland setting trees and building on the left, with distant horizon with trees and cloudy sky on the right.
Provenance
Listed as "[...] and his children", a whole-length paired with that of the "Earl of Dorsett", amongst the nine whole-lengths in "the great Dining Roome above stairs" [the Ballroom] at Knole, in the 1706 inventory; listed in the Great Hall in the 1799 inventory; listed in the Great Hall in the 1828 inventory (no.6); thence by descent. On loan from the Trustees of the Sackville Estate.
Marks and inscriptions
G. Kneller f. Lionel. Ld: Buckhurst only son of Charles, Earl of Dorset & Middlesex & the Lady Mary Sackville his sister
Makers and roles
Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723), artist
References
Vertue 1931-32, George Vertue, Notebooks, vol.II, The Twentieth Volume of the Walpole Society, 1931-32 , p.50 Vertue 1935-36 George Vertue, Notebooks, vol.IV, The Twenty-Fourth Volume of the Walpole Society, 1935-1936, p.18 Killanin, 1948: Lord Killanin, Sir Godfrey Kneller and his times 1646-1723, London, 1948 , pp.37, 54 and pl.46 Sir Godfrey Kneller, National Portrait Gallery, 1971, no.68 Stewart, 1983: J.Douglas Stewart, Sir Godfrey Kneller and the Stuart Baroque Portrait, Oxford, 1983, no.238, pp.103, 160 & 164 (drs. nos.7 & 27) & pl.57d