John Chute (1701-1776) (after Batoni)
Johann Heinrich Müntz (Mulhouse/Mühlhausen 1727 – Kassel 1798)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1756 (inscribed)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
572 x 406 mm (22 1/2 x 16 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Vyne Estate, Hampshire
NT 719371
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, John Chute (1701-1776) (after Batoni) by Johann Heinrich Müntz (Mulhouse 1727 – Kassel 1798), inscribed in decorative oval border: JOHN CHUTE/ ESQ: OF THE VINE, IN HAMPSHIRE. MDCCLVI [1756]. A head-and-shoulders portrait as a middle-aged man, to right, in plum coloured coat, powdered hair and white stock. Chute arms of three swords at the bottom. The black and gilt frame, corresponding with others at Strawberry Hill, dates to Horace Walpole's ownership. This is a copy of a portrait in oils by Batoni which was seen by Walpole at The Vyne but is no longer there and untraced but there is a miniature, also of 1746, presumably done by Batoni after the original portrait, which differs in that in the miniature the sitter is holding a spy-glass.
Provenance
Horace Walpole's Bed Chamber, Strawberry Hill; Strawberry Hill sale, (22nd day, Lot 38) 19 May 1842 bought by William Wiggett Chute; bequeathed with The Vyne, estate and contents by Sir Charles Chute, 1st Bt (1879-1956).
Credit line
The Vyne, The Chute Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Johann Heinrich Müntz (Mulhouse/Mühlhausen 1727 – Kassel 1798), artist after Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Lucca 1708 – Rome 1787), artist
Exhibition history
Strawberry Hill Restored, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, 2018 - 2019
References
Burn 1842: J. H. Burn, Aedes Strawberrianae. Names of Purchasers and the Prices to the Sale Catalogue of the Collections of Art and Vertû, at Strawberry Hill formed by Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford , London c.1842, p.52 Strawberry Hill 1842., p.222. Lot 38. Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill, Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham (Stephen Calloway, Michael Snodin, and Clive Wainwright), 20 September to 7 December 1980 , no. 13