Henry Vernon (1686-1719)
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1710 - 1715
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
2388 x 1651 mm (94 x 65 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall (Children's Country House), Derbyshire
NT 653186
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Henry Vernon (1686-1719) by Jonathan Richardson the elder (London 1665 – London 1745), circa 1710/15, inscribed bottom centre: "Henry Vernon, esqe father to the first Lord Vernon." A full-length portrait of a man, turned to the left gazing at the spectator in a grey powdered wig, wearing a brown velvet coat with white embroidered waistcoat, his hat in his right hand, his left hand tucked into his waistcoat, standing on a chequered floor before a pillar to the right, with a view of a formal garden and a park to the left. Henry first married Anne Pigot (Piggott), through whom the Vernon family inherited the Kinderton estates from her uncle Peter Venables and assumed the additional name of Venables, and secondly to Matilda Wright. By his first wife he was the father of George the 1st Lord Vernon.
Provenance
Acquired from 10th Lord Vernon in lieu of death-duties after the death of Francis Lawrance William Venables-Vernon, 9th Lord Vernon (1889 -1963) and transferred to the National Trust in 1967 through the National Land Fund
Credit line
Sudbury Hall, The Vernon Collection (acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to the National Trust in 1967)
Marks and inscriptions
Jonathan Richardson the Elder (1665 - 1745)
Makers and roles
British (English) School, artist previously catalogued as attributed to Jonathan Richardson the elder (London 1665 – London 1745), artist