The Reverend Legh Fleetwood Richmond (1702/3 - 1769)
Henry Pickering (fl.1740 – Manchester 1771)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1759
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
762 x 635 mm (30 x 25 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Mompesson House, Wiltshire
NT 724322
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Reverend Legh Fleetwood Richmond (1702/3-1769) by Henry Pickering (fl.1740 – Manchester 1771), 1759. A half-length portrait of the Rector of Stockport, aged about 56, in collar and wig, to left, facing.
Provenance
Bequest of Colonel Richard ffolliot Willis, 1956, formerly lent to Lydiard Tregoze, Swindon; transferred to Mompesson House (given to National Trust by Denis Martineau (d. 1975) in 1952), 1984
Credit line
Mompesson House, The Colonel Richard ffolliot Willis Bequest (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Henry Pickering (fl.1740 – Manchester 1771), artist
References
Waterhouse 1980: Ellis K. Waterhouse, 'The Willis Family Portraits at Lydiard Park' National Trust Studies, 1980, pp.49-53, Illus p.53: Caption to illustration "8. Rev Legh Fleetwood Richmond (1703-69) by HenryPickering, 1759, canvas 76.2 cm by 63.5 cm." p.53: "The remaining portraits in Colonel [Richard ffolliott] Willis's bequest, which include three which go back to the seventeenth century, were inherited from his mother, who was Rose Elizabeth ffolliott Powell. They seem to have been remotely inherited from the last Lord Folliott of Ballyshannon, an Irish peerage which became extinct in 1716. The only porrait of especial interest is a bust 76.2 cm by 63.5 cm by Henry Pickering (Fig.8), apparently signed and dated 1759, of the Rev. Legh Fleetwood Richmond (1703-69). Pickering, like Hudson and Ramsay, employed Van Aken as a drapery painter, but presumably heads of this character were painted without that assistance. He compares in fact very favourably with Hudson and with all bu the most distinguished Ramsays of the 1740s."