Henry Maister (1730-1812) as a Mature Man
after Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, RA (London 1735 - Winchester 1811)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1770 - 1799
Materials
Pastel on paper
Measurements
533 x 432 mm (21 x 17 in)
Collection
Maister House, East Yorkshire
NT 221814
Summary
Pastel on paper, Henry Maister II (1730-1812) of Maister House, Hull as a mature man, after Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland RA (London 1735 – Winchester 1811). A reduced pastel copy of Nathaniel Dance's three-quarter length oil now at Sudeley Castle. A later 1879 copy of this portrait in the Ferens Art Gallery, Hull collection.
Provenance
Purchased from J. W. Bentall Antiques, Ripon, May 1975 by the donor's father, Colonel Rupert Alec-Smith (1913 - 1983) at The Old Rectory at Winestead (Alec-Smith Inventory 1957, p. 25, Appendix A No. 5) 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
after Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, RA (London 1735 - Winchester 1811), artist