Dr Peter Barwick (1619 - 1705), his wife, Anne Sayon and daughter, Mary, later Lady Ralph Dutton (d. 1721/3)
Jacob Huysmans (Antwerp c.1630 – London 1696)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1670
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1232 x 991 mm (48 1/2 x 39 in)
Order this imageCollection
Sherborne Park Estate, Gloucestershire
NT 562412
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Dr Peter Barwick (1619 - 1705), his wife, Anne Sayon and daughter Mary, later Lady Ralph Dutton (d. 1721/3) by Jacob Huysmans (Antwerp c.1630 – London 1696), circa 1670. A group portrait of Dr Peter Barwick and his family. He stands behind his wife, a merchant's widow and a kinswoman of the judicially murdered Archbishop Laud, and daughter on the left. His wife is sitting in the centre, wearing an ochre velvet dress and a pearl necklace and their daughter stands on the left touching a garland of flowers which rests on her mother's lap. Her mother's left arm rests on a plinth on the right.
Provenance
Bequest of Charles Dutton, 7th Baron Sherborne (1911 – 1982), along with the rest of the Sherborne Estate, to the National Trust in 1982
Credit line
Sherborne, The Dutton Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Jacob Huysmans (Antwerp c.1630 – London 1696), artist previously catalogued as school of Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – London 1680), artist