Edward Harpur (1713 – 1761) and his Sister Catherine Harpur, later Lady Gough (d.1740) as Children
John Verelst (fl. 1698 - London 1734)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1718
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1420 x 1120 mm
Order this imageCollection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 290279
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Edward Harpur (1713 – 1761) and his Sister Catherine Harpur, later Lady Gough (d.1740) as Children by John Verelst (fl 1698 - London 1734). The boy dressed in red, stands on the left holding a grape vine. The girl, dressed in blue with a white apron, stands on the right, a pink rose in her right hand. It seems odd that Sir John commissioned two different artists to paint four of his children in two groups of two in the same year, particularly when the style of the artists is so different.
Provenance
Acquired with Calke Abbey's contents, with the aid of a grant provided by the National Heritage Memorial Fund, thanks to a special allocation of money from the Government and transferred in lieu of tax on the estate of Charles Jenney Harpur-Crewe (1917 - 1981) to the National Trust with the house that was given by Henry Jenney Harpur-Crewe (1921- 1991), in 1984
Credit line
Calke Abbey, The Harpur Crewe Collection (acquired by the National Trust with the help of the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund in 1984)
Makers and roles
John Verelst (fl. 1698 - London 1734), publisher