William Stawell, 3rd Baron Stawell (1681/3-1742) as a Young Man
Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1659 - London 1743)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1705 - 1710
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1245 x 991 mm (49 x 39 in)
Order this imageCollection
Hinton Ampner, Hampshire
NT 1530086
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, William Stawell, 3rd Baron Stawell (1681/3-1742) as a Young Man by Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1656/9 – London 1743), circa 1705/10. A three-quarter-length portrait, facing, wearing full-bottomed wig and loose white cravat, his right hand on his hip, the fingers of his left hand tucked into his long brown coat. Standing before a red curtain and a column.
Full description
Oil painting on canvas, William Stawell, 3rd Baron Stawell (1681/3-1742) as a Young Man by Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1656/9 – London 1743), circa 1705/10. A three-quarter-length portrait, facing, wearing full-bottomed wig and loose white cravat, his right hand on his hip, the fingers of his left hand tucked into his long brown coat. Standing before a red curtain and a column. William Stawell, 3rd Baron Stawell was the second son of Ralph Stawell of Cothelstone, Somerset, who was raised to the peerage of Baron Stawell of Somerton in 1682, by his second wife, Abigail Pitt. He married an affluent widow, Mrs Forster, who brought him the Manor of Aldermaston. William died without a surviving male heir passing the title to his younger brother Edward, 4th Baron Stawell. Ralph Dutton inherited paintings of the 3rd and 4th Baron Stawell s(inv.1530085 and 153006) and thought they depicted an earlier generation from the Stawell family. Comparison with other works by Michael Dahl, a fashionable Swedish artist working in England, suggests they were painted when these brothers were 20 to 30 years old.
Provenance
By descent, survived but suffered from 1960 fire; bequeathed to the National Trust by Ralph Stawell Dutton, with the rest of the collections, house, gardens and estate of Hinton Ampner.
Credit line
Hinton Ampner, The Ralph Dutton Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1659 - London 1743)