Dorothy Clutton, Mrs John Henry Whitmore-Jones (1792/3-1862)
Edward Villiers Rippingille (King’s Lynn 1798 – Birmingham 1859)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1850 - 1851
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
750 x 620 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Chastleton House, Oxfordshire
NT 1430491
Caption
Dorothy Clutton was the third daughter of Colonel Thomas Clutton (1754-1806) of Pensax Court, Worcestershire and Kinnersley Castle, Herefordshire, and the sister of another Colonel Thomas, who took the name Clutton-Brock (1795-1856). Dorothy was married in 1821, at the age of 30, to John Henry Whitmore, who seven years later inherited Chastleton House, Oxfordshire from his distant cousins and added the name of Jones to his own. Sittings were recorded in the Diary of John Henry Whitmore Jones on Nov 18th 1850: 'sat to Mr Rippingale [sic] for my picture' and Dec 1st & 2nd 1850, so it can be assumed the portrait of his wife is a pendant and painted soon after. When their direct descendants died out, with the death of Irene Whitmore-Jones in 1955, it was to Colonel Thomas Clutton-Brock's great-grandson, Alan, that the latter left the house.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Dorothy Clutton, Mrs John Henry Whitmore-Jones (1791-1862) by Edward Villiers Rippingille (King’s Lynn 1798 – Birmingham 1859), circa 1850. A half-length portrait of a mature woman, turned to the left, gazing slightly down to the left, brown hair with centre parting under a lace bonnet dressed with scarlet ribbons and wearing a black dress over a white bodice with a lace shawl wrapped over her left arm
Makers and roles
Edward Villiers Rippingille (King’s Lynn 1798 – Birmingham 1859), artist