Possibly Henry Vernon (1686-1719)
possibly Thomas Murray (Scotland 1663 – London 1735)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1682
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
724 x 610 mm (28 1/2 x 24 in)
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Sudbury Hall (Children's Country House), Derbyshire
NT 653212
Summary
Oil painting on canvas (oval), Possibly Henry Vernon (1664-1694), brother of George Vernon's third wife, Catherine Vernon, merchant in Aleppo, possibly by Thomas Murray (Scotland 1663 – London 1734) or John Closterman (1660-1711) - see C.A.Knott p.227. Oval. Half-length portrait of a young man turned to the left, gazing at the spectator in a long brown wig, a white stock at his neck, and wearing a wine-coloured cloak clasped on his left shoulder over white sleeves.
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)
Makers and roles
possibly Thomas Murray (Scotland 1663 – London 1735), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Enoch Seeman the younger (Gdańsk c.1694 – London 1744), artist