Probably Lady Elizabeth Yorke, Lady Anson (1725-1760)
Thomas Hudson (Devonshire 1701 – Twickenham 1779)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
c. 1745 - 1750
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1101 x 896 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 207889
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, probably Lady Elizabeth Yorke, Lady Anson (1725-1760), by Thomas Hudson (1701–1779), c. 1745-50. A three-quarter length portrait of a young woman, depicted in the pastoral style, in the guise of a shepherdess. The sitter facing, turned to proper right, and wearing a white dress with blue ribbons, a hat and posy of flowers at her breast, and holding a shepherdess's crook adorned with flowers. Against a landscape. In gilded frame. The sitter is probably the writer and political manager, Lady Elizabeth Yorke, Lady Anson. Elizabeth was the eldest daughter of Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, and his wife Margaret Cocks. She lived at Wimpole Hall until her marriage in 1748 to Admiral George Anson of Shugborough. Elizabeth was strongly involved in the design of the gardens at Shugborough. This picture may be the only extant oil portrait by Hudson in the pastoral style (two others are known from engravings only).
Provenance
Bequeathed to Sandy Gordon-Cumming by his cousin; then by descent to Mary Elizabeth Gordon-Cumming; on loan to the National Trust from 1992 - 2021; acquired via the Private Treaty Sale scheme by the National Trust in 2021 with a generous private donation.
Makers and roles
Thomas Hudson (Devonshire 1701 – Twickenham 1779), artist