Anne Lee, Mrs George Venables-Vernon (d.1742)
attributed to Thomas Hudson (Devonshire 1701 – Twickenham 1779) and Joseph van Aken (Antwerp 1709 - London 1749)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1741 - 1749
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
2362 x 1435 mm (93 x 56 1/2 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall (Children's Country House), Derbyshire
NT 653160
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Anne Lee, Mrs George Venables-Vernon (d.1742) by Thomas Hudson (Devonshire 1701 – Twickenham 1779) and Joseph van Aken (Antwerp 1709 - London 1749), circa 1741. A full-length portrait of a young woman, standing on a terrace, facing, head inclined slightly to the left, gazing at the spectator, holding a white ostrich feathered fan in her right hand which is crossed over her left wrist, and leaning with her left elbow on a pedestal surmounted by an urn. She is wearing a form of fancy dress inspired by Rubens's portrait of his wife (Helena Fourment in Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon) consisting of a a large black feathered hat, a black dress with white muslin sleeves tied with pink ribbons at the elbows a tree behind at her right, a distant horizon with stormy clouds forms the background. The present sitter was the daughter of Sir Thomas Lee, 3rd Bt. She married in 1741 as his second wife, George Venables Vernon afterwards created 1st Baron Vernon in 1762.
Provenance
Vernon collection transfered from the Treasury to the National Trust on the 30th October 1984.
Credit line
Sudbury Hall, The Vernon Collection (acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to the National Trust in 1967)
Marks and inscriptions
English mid-18th Century
Makers and roles
attributed to Thomas Hudson (Devonshire 1701 – Twickenham 1779) and Joseph van Aken (Antwerp 1709 - London 1749), artist Joseph van Aken (Antwerp c.1699 - London 1749) , artist Thomas Hudson (Devonshire 1701 – Twickenham 1779), artist
References
Solkin 2015 David H. Solkin, Art in Britain 1660 - 1815, Pelican History of Art, Yale University Press, 2015, p. 130, figs. 133 & 134 for comparative works by Hudson and Ramsay with Jan van Aken assistance