Sir Richard Hoare, 1st Bt of Barn Elms (1735-1787)
Francis Cotes (London 1726 - London 1770)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1757 (signed and dated)
Materials
Pastel on paper
Measurements
749 x 648 mm (29 1/2 x 25 1/2 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 730762
Summary
Pastel on paper, Sir Richard Hoare, 1st Bt of Barn Elms (1735-1787) by Francis Cotes, RA (London 1726 – London 1770), signed and dated: F Cotes pxt 1757. A half-length portrait, facing, head and gaze to the right, holding a porte crayon and a sheet of paper in his right hand his left hand on his hip, wearing a grey coat, white stock and blue waistcoat with gold frogging. It was copied by Samuel Woodforde in oils, NT 732204, also at Stourhead and its companion is NT 730761. The sitter was the son of Sir Richard Hoare and Sarah Tulley; married firstly his cousin Anne, daughter of Henry Hoare and Susan Colt, and secondly Frances Anne, daughter of Richard Acland and Ann Burrell. By his first wife he was the father of Sir Richard Colt Hoare, who succeeded him to the baronetcy which he received a year before his death; by his second wife he had five children, Henry Hugh (3rd Baronet), Charles, Henry Merrick, Peter Richard and Henrietta Anne.
Provenance
Commissioned by the sitter and thence by descent; given to the National Trust along with the house, its grounds, and the rest of contents by Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Bt (1865 – 1947) in 1946.
Makers and roles
Francis Cotes (London 1726 - London 1770), artist
References
Waterhouse 1994 Ellis K. Waterhouse, Painting in Britain 1530-1790, Pelican History of Art, Harmondsworth, [1st Pub.1953], 1994 ed., p.192, pl.162a Johnson 1976 Edward Mead Johnson, Francis Cotes: Complete Edition with a Critical Essay and a Catalogue, Oxford, 1976, p.61, no.76, fig.21 Solkin 2015 David H. Solkin, Art in Britain 1660 - 1815, Pelican History of Art, Yale University Press, 2015, p. 139, fig. 146