The Reverend John Hammond Lucy (1734 – 1823)
William Artaud (London 1763 - London 1823)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1783 - 1823
Materials
Oil on canvas (oval)
Measurements
743 x 616 mm (29 1/4 x 24 1/4 in)
Order this imageCollection
Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 533850
Summary
Oil painting on canvas (oval), The Reverend John Hammond Lucy (1734 – 1823) by William Artaud (London 1763 - London 1823). An oval half-length portrait of The Reverend John Hammond Lucy (1734-1823). The Reverend is positioned half left and is facing half left. He is wearing black with a white shirt just visible at the neck. He has a short grey wig on and his right wrist can be seen at the bottom of the portrait. In an oval giltwood frame. Reverend John Hammond Lucy (1734-1823) was the Rector of Hampton Lucy and Charlecote, he succeeded to Charlecote 1786, assuming the name of Lucy the following year. He married Maria Lane and this portrait is a companion piece to her portrait (NT 533853).
Provenance
Presented to the National Trust by Sir Montgomerie Fairfax-Lucy (1896 – 1965), two years after the death of his father, Sir Henry Ramsay-Fairfax, 3rd Bt (1870 – 1944), with Charlecote Park and its chief contents, in 1946
Credit line
Charlecote Park, The Fairfax-Lucy Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
William Artaud (London 1763 - London 1823), artist