Anna Vernon, Lady Berwick (1744-1797) and her son Thomas Noel-Hill, later 2nd Baron Berwick of Attingham (1770-1832)
Katherine Read (Dundee 1723 – at sea 1779)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
c. 1771
Materials
Pastel on paper
Measurements
890 x 740 mm
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 607878
Caption
Anne, wife of the 1st Lord Berwick had three sons and three daughters. All her sons inherited the title and Thomas, seen here as a baby, became 2nd Lord Berwick at the age of 19. She was a devoted mother and left personal keepsakes to her children in her will.
Summary
Pastel on paper, Anna Vernon, Lady Berwick (1744-1797) and her son Thomas Noel-Hill, later 2nd Baron Berwick of Attingham (1770-1832), attributed to Katherine Read (Dundee 1723 - between India and London 1778), c. 1771. A half length portrait of Anna Vernon, Lady Berwick, daughter of Henry Vernon of Hilton, Staffordshire and Lady Henrietta Wentworth and the wife of Noel Hill, 1st Lord Berwick whom she married at St George's Church, St George Street, Hanover Square, London in 1768. The sitter, holding her infant son, wears a pink dress with a green shawl draped over her shoulders and over her child and coiffure; a blue shawl is draped over her knees. See Neil Jeffares, 'Katherine Read', Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800, 2006; online edition, no. J.612.14.
Provenance
Attingham collection; bequeathed to the National Trust with the estate, house and contents of Attingham by Thomas Henry Noel-Hill, 8th Baron Berwick (1877-1947) on 15th May 1953.
Makers and roles
Katherine Read (Dundee 1723 – at sea 1779), publisher previously catalogued as attributed to William Hoare of Bath, RA (Eye 1707 – Bath 1792), publisher
Exhibition history
Now You see Us, Women Artists in Britain 1520 - 1920, Tate Britain, London, 2024
References
Jeffares 2006 Neil Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, London 2006, p. 239, Bii Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920, exh.cat., Tate Britain, London 16 May - 13 October 2024, pp. 82-3, no. 68.