Frances Askham (d.1748)
Petrus Johannes van Reyschoot (Ghent 1702 – Ghent 1777)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1741
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
740 x 614 mm
Place of origin
England
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Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 781629
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Frances Askham (d.1748) by Petrus Johannes van Reyschoot (Ghent 1702 - Ghent 1777), inscribed bottom right: VAN REYSCHOO. (If there has been a date, it has been cut off or effaced). Painted oval. Half-length portrait of a young girl, turned slightly to the right, gazing at the spectator, in her left hand she holds a chain to which is attached a red squirrel , who sits on a stone ledge, turned to the left and eating a nut. She is wearing a pale brown/gold dress with white frills at the neck and cuffs, and with heavy silver embroidery down the front of the bodice and on her sleeves. Red drape in background. Sister of Anne 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