Tysoe Saul Hancock, his wife Philadelphia (née Austen), their daughter Elizabeth Capot (née Hancock, later Austen), Comtesse de Feuillide and Clarinda
Samuel William Reynolds, the younger (London 1794 - Felpham 1872)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1835
Materials
Glass, Paper, Wood
Measurements
180 x 220 mm
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Scotney Castle, Kent
NT 792139
Summary
Tysoe Saul Hancock (1723–1775); Philadelphia Hancock (née Austen) (1730–1792); Elizabeth Capot (née Hancock, later Austen), Comtesse de Feuillide; Clarinda (active 1772– died c.1780). Mezzotint by Samuel William Reynolds the younger (1794–1872) after Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792), published 1835 (1763). Reproductive engraving after original painting by Reynolds in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin formerly thought to depict George Clive (1720–1779), his wife Sidney Bolton (1740–1814), their daughter Louisa Clive (1764–1842) and an unidentified maid.
Full description
It was previously suggested that the portrait by Joshua Reynolds in the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, which this mezzotinit is after, was of 'George Clive and His Family with an Indian Maid'. New research by Charlotte and Gwendolen Mitchell [1] suggests that Reynolds's portrait is in fact of the physician Tysoe Saul Hancock (1723–1775); his wife, Philadelphia Hancock (née Austen) (1730-1792), aunt of the novelist Jane Austen; their daughter, Elizabeth Capot (née Hancock, later Austen), Comtesse de Feuillide (1761-1813), later wife of Henry Austen; and Clarinda, the family servant who accompanied the Hancocks from India to London. Reynolds's picture was engraved by Samuel William Reynolds in 1835. [1] See: Charlotte and Gwendolen Mitchell, 'Passages to India: Did Joshua Reynolds Paint a portrait of Jane Austen's aunt?', https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/passages-to-india/, accessed 11 November 2020.
Makers and roles
Samuel William Reynolds, the younger (London 1794 - Felpham 1872), engraver (printmaker) after Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA (Plympton 1723 - London 1792), artist