Esther Thompson (m.1722; d.1823)
manner of Edward Alcock (fl.1745 - 1778)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1768
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1245 x 991 mm (49 x 39 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Maister House, East Yorkshire
NT 221810
Summary
Oil painting on canvas of Esther Thompson (nee Rickaby) (b.1748 - d.1823) in the manner of Edward Alcock (fl.1745 - 1778). Bears spurious signature of Francis Cotes with the date 1768. Esther was daughter of John Rickaby of Burlington Key, Bridlington. She married a Mr Thompson and was widowed young. In 1772 she remarried Arthur Maister (1738-90), brother of Henry Maister II owner of Maister House, Hull. The couple lived at Salthouse Lane, Hull. This work may be a portrait from the time of her first marriage.
Provenance
Purchased from Sotheby's 1938 for £70 from the Collection of the Reverend A. G. Maister of Horsham by the donor's father, Colonel Rupert Alec-Smith (1913 - 1983) at The Old Rectory, Winestead (Alec-Smith Inventory 1957, p.25, Appendix A No. 6); and thence by descent to his daughter Alexandra Alec-Smith who donated them in 2013 to the National Trust for Maister House (given by the Georgian Society for East Yorkshire, Colonel Rupert Alec-Smith and Barkers & Lee Smith Ltd in 1966)
Credit line
Maister House, The Alec-Smith Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
manner of Edward Alcock (fl.1745 - 1778), artist