Frances Wyndham, later Lady Burrell (1789-1848) as Hebe
Sir William Beechey (Burford 1753 - Hampstead 1839)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1803 - 1804 (exh at RA)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1524 x 1219 mm (60 x 48 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486224
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Frances Wyndham, later Lady Burrell (1789-1848) as Hebe by Sir William Beechey RA (Burford 1753 – Hampstead 1839), 1804. A full-length portrait of a young woman, in the prime of her life, seated, profile right and wearing a white dress. On her knee is a golden bowl from which an eagle drinks. She was the daughter of Zeus (here in the form of an eagle) and Hera (Juno), the goddess of youth, and the cupbearer for the gods and goddesses of Mount Olympus, serving their nectar and ambrosia. She married Heracles (Hercules). Frances was the daughter of George O’Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont and Elizabeth Ilive and married Sir Charles Merrick Burrell, 3rd Bt,MP on May 8, 1808. According to Collins Baker ( 1920) it is a variant on a smaller picture of 'Hebe' painted for C. S. Pybus.
Provenance
In the collection of the 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837) 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
Sir William Beechey (Burford 1753 - Hampstead 1839), artist
References
Roberts 1907 William Roberts, Sir William Beechey RA, London 1907, p. 83