Sir Walter Calverley Blackett, 2nd Bt (1707 – 1777) as a Baby
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1708 (inscribed)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
762 x 635 mm (30 x 25 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 584376.3
Summary
Oil painting on canvas (oval), Sir Walter Calverley Blackett, 2nd Bt (1707 – 1777) as a Baby, British (English) School, inscribed on back of unlined canvas: W:C: Æ: s: 14 Mths/Feb: 1708 (and name of sitter, etc.). A full-length portrait of a young child, almost a baby, turned slightly to the right, gazing at the spectator, wearing a white cloth around his waist, naked left leg forward, seated on a red velvet cushion with a spaniel on the left, whose head he strokes with is right hand. Green drape on cushion, red drape pulled back on the left. One of a set of four oval oil paintings.
Provenance
Given with the property to the National Trust in 1941 by Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan, 3rd Bt (1870 – 1958)
Credit line
Wallington, The Trevelyan Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: W:C: Æ: s: 14 Mths/Feb: 1708 (and name of sitter, etc.)(on back of unlined canvas)
Makers and roles
British (English) School, artist