Sir Walter Calverley, 1st Bt (1669-1749)
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1708 - 1709 - circa 1711
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1270 x 1016 mm (50 x 40 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 584384
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Sir Walter Calverley, 1st Bt (1669-1749), British (English) School, circa 1708/09 - 1711. A three-quarter-length portrait of a middle -aged man, turned to the right, gazing at the spectator, seated, long light-brown wig with centre parting, wearing a blue coat with a red cloak over his knees; a classical house, possibly Esholt House, seen in the background through a window. Esholt (now swallowed up by Bradford, West Riding) was believed to be by Joseph Pape of Farnley for Sir Walter Calverley, 1706-1709. Its "S. front is of 7 bays and 2 storeys, with a 3-bay pediment, quoins, restrainedly framed windows. Doorway with frieze rising a little in the middle. Segmental pediment on corbels" [not stated to be broken] (Pevsner). The pedimented central bays of this classical house (Esholt) look curiously like the south front of Wallington before its remodelling by Sir Walter Calverley Blackett, circa 1739.
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
(later inscription with name of sitter)
Makers and roles
British (English) School, artist