The Reverend Utrick Fetherstonhaugh (1717/18-1788) as Apollo
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Lucca 1708 – Rome 1787)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1751 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
965 x 724 mm (38 x 28 ½ in)
Place of origin
Rome
Order this imageCollection
Uppark House and Garden, West Sussex
NT 138263
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Reverend Utrick Fetherstonhaugh (1717/18-1788) as Apollo by Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Lucca 1708 – Rome 1787), signed and dated, On base of lyre: P B• 1751. A half-length portrait, to right, wearing a dark green coat, pink cloak over right arm, a lyre in his lefthand; a quiver of arrows hangs on a tree, right. The arrows and crook hung up on the tree, the lyre and the gesture of conducting music appear to be allusions to the god Apollo, brother of Diana, in which guise Batoni painted his sister-in-law (Red Drawing Room, NT/UPP/P/52). Younger brother of Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh and husband of Katherine Durnford (Small Drawing Room NT/UPP/P/40); he was appointed Rector of Harting in 1757, succeeding Dr Durnford, his father-in-law. He later acted as tutor to his nephew, Sir Harry Fetherstonhaugh, accompanying him on his Grand Tour.
Provenance
Presumably commissioned by Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh; thence by descent and inheritance until acquired by the National Trust from the family in 1971. Presumably commissioned by Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh of his younger brother; early 19th-century hanging-plans, in the Little Drawing Room: “6. Mr. Fetherston [by] Pompeo Battoni” [overdoor to right of Prodigal Son]; H. R. Bolton’s bill, 28 September 1849, in the Small Drawing Room: “21 Portrait of the Revd. U. Featherstone [by] P. Battoni.”; 1874 inventory, in the Little Drawing Room, as “Portrait of [¬–––––] Featherstone Esq. by Pompeo Battoni”; thence by descent and inheritance until acquired by the National Trust from the family in 1971.
Credit line
Uppark, The Fetherstonhaugh Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: The Revd Utrick Fetherston-haugh - / Bror of Mattw Fetherston-haugh / Painted at Rome - by Pompeo Battoni / Anno 1751 (19th century label pasted to back of canvas)
Makers and roles
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Lucca 1708 – Rome 1787), artist
References
Walpole, 1927-1928: Horace Walpole’s Journals of visits to country seats, &c. Ed. Paget Toynbee. Vol. 16. Walpole Society.1927-8. [Uppark pp.68-69]. Gore 1969: F. St John Gore, 'Pictures in National Trust Houses', supplement to Burlington Magazine, Vol.cxi, No.793. April 1969, pp.239-58 Pompeo Batoni and his British Patrons, exh. cat. (listed by Edgar Peters Bowron & Francis Russell), Kenwood House, Hampstead, London 8 June - 30 August, 1982, p. 91, no. 61 Clark and Bowron 1985 Anthony M. Clark & Edgar Peters Bowron (ed.), Pompeo Batoni A Complete Catalogue of his Works with an Introductory Text, Oxford 1985, no, 158, p. 253, & pl. 148