Mary Calverley, Lady Sherard (d.1702)
after Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1700
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
458 x 380 x 38 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 584422
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Mary Calverley, Lady Sherard (d.1702), after Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646/9 - London 1723), inscribed on reverse: Lady Sherard's picture/Lady Calv:s daughter/For Sr Matt:[?] Calverley at my death/For Sr. Walter Calverley at my death [rewritten because first time messed up?] and label on front reads, with 19th century ink, stuck to glass to front: Mary d & h of Sir H Y. Calverley/of Eryholme[?]Kt. mar: 1696/Bennet Ld. Sherrard/Baron Harborough)/& o.s.p. in May 1702. A three-quarter-length portrait of a young woman, turned slightly to the right, gazing at the spectator, wearing a blue dress with a pink cloak held across her, window to the right, with view of trees and cloudy sky.
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)
Makers and roles
after Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723), artist