Lady Lepel Hervey, Lady Mulgrave (1723-1780)
attributed to Johann Zoffany, RA (Frankfurt am Main 1733 - Kew 1810)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1765
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
660 x 511 mm (26 x 20 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 851788
Caption
The sitter was the eldest daughter of John Lord Hervey (1696-1743) and Mary Lepel, daughter of Brigadier General Nicholas Lepel. She married Constantine Phipps, later created (1767) 1st Baron Mulgrave (1722-1775), in 1743. She appears in the Conversation-Piece, also at Ickworth, which is ascribed to Gravelot and Liotard. According to Collins’s Peerage, she ‘was found dead in her bed, 9th March 1780, at her son’s house in the Admiralty.’
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Lady Lepel Hervey, Lady Mulgrave (1723-1780), attributed to Johann Zoffany, RA (Frankfurt am Main 1733 - Kew 1810). Three-quarter length portrait of a woman, facing, gazing at the spectator, seated in red chair, and with her right hand she fingers her black lace shawl, she is wearing a white satin dress and black lace shawl tied round her neck; a blue purse is tied round her left wrist. Right earring showing and matching brooch in centre of headdress. Inscribed 'Lepel, Lady Mulgrave'.
Provenance
Accepted in lieu of tax by HM Treasury, and transferred to the National Trust in 1956
Credit line
Ickworth, The Bristol Collection (acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to The National Trust in 1956)
Marks and inscriptions
Lepel, Lady Mulgrave
Makers and roles
attributed to Johann Zoffany, RA (Frankfurt am Main 1733 - Kew 1810), artist
References
Farrer 1908 Edmund Farrer, Portraits in Suffolk Houses (West), 1908, no. 140 Manners & Williamson 1920 Lady Victoria Manners & G.C. Williamson, Zoffany, 1920