Anne Askham (1730-1784)
Petrus Johannes van Reyschoot (Ghent 1702 – Ghent 1777)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1740 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
750 x 620 mm
Place of origin
England
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Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 781627
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Anne Askham (1730 - 1784) by Petrus Johannes van Reyschoot (Ghent 1702 - Ghent 1777), signed: VAN REYSCHOOT PINX / 1740. A painted oval three-quarter-length portrait of a young girl, turned to the left, gazing at the spectator, seated, wearing flowers in her brown hair, and wearing a blue dress with a white apron, the dress embellished with white frills at neck and sleeve. She is holding a posy of roses and is in a landscape setting with a stone balustrade on the right and trees on the left and blue sky. Sister of Frances Askham.
Provenance
The unmarried Askham sisters lived at Conington Hall near Cambridge, but their sister married Sir Thomas Hatton of Longstanton, and it was their daughter who married Dr Philip Gardner, and they later inherited Conington Hall. By descent through the Gardner family to R C B Gardner and his son R N Gardner. Loaned to the National Trust in 1947 by Mr R C B Gardner, in 1997 by Mr R N Gardner, and by his widow Mrs G R Gardner in 2010.
Makers and roles
Petrus Johannes van Reyschoot (Ghent 1702 – Ghent 1777), artist