Conversation Piece of the Warren Family
Charles Philips (London 1708 – London 1747)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1734 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
762 x 1041 mm (30 x 41 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall (Children's Country House), Derbyshire
NT 653234
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Conversation Piece of the Warren Family by Charles Phillips (London 1708 – London 1747), on horizontal strut of table (right of dog): CPhilips pinxit 1734. (the ‘C’ encircling the ‘P’) and frame label: FAMILY GROUP. / C. PHILIPS, Pinxit. / 1734. A portrait family group, consisting of four men and five women, attended by two lapdogs, playing billiards and cards in a sombre but grandiose interior, lit by window to left. Warren family consisting: reading right to left as follows: Ann Harper, Mrs Borlase Warren (d.1751), her husband Borlase Warren (1677-1747), Mary Warren (1717-1784) youngest surviving daughter died unmarried, Elizabeth Warren (1715-after 1781) 3rd daughter died unmarried, Frances Warren (1713-1784) 2nd daughter, died unmarried, John Borlase Warren (1699 - 1763) eldest son, did not marry until 1752, Arthur Warren (1704-1768) 2nd surviving son, died unmarried, or Arnold Warren (1705 - 1768) 3rd surviving son, died unmarried, Ann Warren, Viscountess Cullen (1703-1754) eldest surviving daughter married in 1732, or the wife (of if he had one) of James Warren, James Warren (b.1712) youngest surviving son, and although no date of death is known, he became Rector of Stratton Audley, so must have survived into adulthood.
Provenance
Presumably John Borlase Warren (1699-1763), Stapleford Hall, Notts.; thence via Frances Warren, Lady Vernon (1784-1837), by descent to John Lawrence ,10th Baron Vernon (1923-2000), by whom bequeathed it to the National Trust
Credit line
Sudbury Hall, The Vernon Collection (acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to the National Trust in 1967)
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: On horizontal strut of table (right of dog): CPhilips pinxit 1734. (the ‘C’ encircling the ‘P’). Recto: Frame tablet: FAMILY GROUP. / C. PHILIPS, Pinxit. / 1734; and paper disc with the number: 144
Makers and roles
Charles Philips (London 1708 – London 1747), artist
References
Knox 2001 T. Knox, 'National Trust Projects and Acquisitions 2000-2001', NT Apollo, April 2001, pp. 3-13 (p.10)