Called Frances Anne Burrell, Mrs Acland (1701 - 1771) but more likely Frances Anne Acland, Lady Hoare (1735/6-1800)
attributed to William Hoare of Bath, RA (Eye 1707 – Bath 1792)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
circa 1772 - 1792
Materials
Pastel on paper
Measurements
572 x 470 mm (22 1/2 x 18 1/2 in)
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 730766
Summary
Pastel on paper, Called Anne Burrell, Mrs Acland (c.1701 - 1771) but more likely Frances Anne Acland, Lady Hoare (1735/6-1800) by William Hoare of Bath, RA (Eye 1707 - Bath 1792). An oval half-length portrait, turned to the left, almost left profile, wearing a white dress, with lace covering her head and shoulders of, most probably, the wife of Sir Richard Hoare, 1st Bt, as his second wife, whom he married in 1761. The three daughters of Peter Burrell of Beckenham (presumably of her brother of the next generation), became close friends of Mary Hoare after her marriage to Henry Hoare of Beckenham in 1765 (see exhibition catalogue William Hoare of Bath, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath 1990, p.16). Since this picture belongs to the set of similarly-framed ovals, and stylistically is of the same period as them, it is much more likely that it depicts the - otherwise unrepresented wife of Sir Richard and mother of all the children, Frances Anne Acland, Lady Hoare, than that it should be a - possibly posthumous - portrait of her mother and his mother-in-law, Anne Burrell, Mrs Richard Acland. Her gaze is also directed to what would then be her husband.
Provenance
Possibly bequeathed by artist's son, Prince Hoare (1755 - 1834); given to the National Trust along with the house, its grounds, and the rest of the contents by Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Bt (1865 – 1947) in 1946
Makers and roles
attributed to William Hoare of Bath, RA (Eye 1707 – Bath 1792), artist