Ralph Hopton, 1st Baron Hopton of Stratton KB (1598-1652)
after Daniel Mytens the elder (Delft c.1590 – The Hague 1648)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1626
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
2030 x 1220 mm; 30.7 kg (Weight)
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486173
Caption
The sitter was a noted Royalist general. The eldest of his sisters and co-heiress Catherine Hopton married John Wyndham, the father of Sir William Wyndham, 1st Bt., and no doubt inherited the chief family portraits, since she was senior co-heiress. Ralph Hopton, was M.P. for various boroughs. He was knighted in February 1625/6, and has been painted here in his robes as a Knight of the Order of the Bath. In 1642 he was made the King’s Lieutenant-General of the Horse in the West Country. After a successful campaign he was created Baron Hopton of Stratton, but he later capitulated at Truro, in 1646, and died in exile at Bruges.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Ralph Hopton, 1st Baron Hopton of Stratton KB (1598-1652), after Daniel Mytens the elder (Delft c.1590 – The Hague 1648), inscribed as carved on panelled background: Veritas Emerget [truth prevails] and inscribed with name of sitter in script mid-right: Ralph Lord Hopton, circa 1626. A full-length portrait, standing, full face, in robes of the Knight of the Order of the Bath, his hat in his right hand and a green-covered table at right with a panelled wall behind. Straw matting covers the floor.
Provenance
?Orchard Wyndham (by 1732), in the Egrmeont collection by 1785 and in the collection of the 3rd Earl of Egremont by 1835; thence by descent, until the death in 1952 of the 3rd Lord Leconfield, who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-72) arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by H.M.Treasury.
Credit line
Petworth House, The Egremont Collection (acquired in lieu of tax by HM Treasury in 1956 and subsequently transferred to the National Trust)
Makers and roles
after Daniel Mytens the elder (Delft c.1590 – The Hague 1648), artist Paul Van Somer (c.1577/8 - 1621/2), artist