Lady Lucy Manners, Duchess of Montrose (1717 – 1788)
Thomas Hudson (Devonshire 1701 – Twickenham 1779) and Joseph van Aken (Antwerp 1709 - London 1749)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1742 - 1749
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1240 x 1000 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 290369
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Lady Lucy Manners, Duchess of Montrose (1717 – 1788) by Thomas Hudson (Devonshire 1701 – Twickenham 1779) and Joseph van Aken (Antwerp 1709 - London 1749), circa 1742. A three-quarter-length portrait, standing. She wears a decolleté black dress with full white sleeves and a stiff wide white collar around the back. She wears a wide black hat with white ostrich plumes and holds another plume in her left hand. There are gold chains around her bodice. She is shown against a landscape background. Lady Manners, youngest daughter of the 2nd Duke of Rutland, was a sister of Lady Caroline Harpur. She married William Graham, 2nd Duke of Montrose in 1742.
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
Thomas Hudson (Devonshire 1701 – Twickenham 1779) and Joseph van Aken (Antwerp 1709 - London 1749), artist after Thomas Hudson (Devonshire 1701 – Twickenham 1779), artist Joseph van Aken (Antwerp c.1699 - London 1749) , artist
References
Solkin 2015 David H. Solkin, Art in Britain 1660 - 1815, Pelican History of Art, Yale University Press, 2015, p. 130, figs. 133 & 134 for comparative works by Hudson and Ramsay with Jan van Aken assistance