A Boy of the Pole Family called 'Miss Pole'
John Vanderbank the younger (London 1694 - London 1739)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1731
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
889 x 686 mm (35 x 27 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Antony, Cornwall
NT 352371
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Boy of the Pole Family called 'Miss Pole' by John Vanderbank the younger (London 1694 - London 1739), previously catalogued as by Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646/9 - London 1723). A full-length seated portrait of so-called Miss Pole, but probably a young boy, feeding a parrot with a landscape background.
Provenance
By inheritance and descent; on loan from Sir Richard Carew Pole since 1961
Credit line
Antony, The Carew-Pole Collection
Makers and roles
John Vanderbank the younger (London 1694 - London 1739), artist previously catalogued as by Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723), artist