The Reverend and Hon. Frederick Augustus Hervey, Bishop of Derry, later 4th Earl of Bristol (1730-1803)
attributed to Johann Zoffany, RA (Frankfurt am Main 1733 - Kew 1810)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1766 - circa 1767
Materials
Oil on canvas (oval)
Measurements
737 x 610 mm (29 x 24 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 851791
Caption
The sitter is seen as a young man in Holy Orders. He was ordained in 1754, became Clerk of the Privy Seal in 1756, Principal Clerk in 1761 and royal chaplain in 1763. He was travelling abroad from the spring of 1765, until late in 1766, when he was called home by his appointment as chaplain to his eldest brother after his nomination as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in September 1766. Hervey’s appointment as bishop of Cloyne took place in February 1767, and he was ordained in May. Evidently, this portrait was painted before this, as his wig and dress are too informal to allow that he appears here as a bishop.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas (oval), Frederick Augustus Hervey, Bishop of Derry, later 4th Earl of Bristol (1730-1803), attributed to Johann Zoffany, RA (Frankfurt am Main 1733 - Kew 1810), inscribed right: FREDERICK HERVEY, BISHOP OF DERRY (thus dating the inscriptions on this and the other portraits in the set to between 1768 and 1779), circa 1766/67. An oval three-quarter-length portrait of a young man, turned to the right, gazing at the spectator, seated, wearing dark clerical dress, left arm resting on table holding a book (open at an engraving of the Expulsion from Paradise); grey hair parted in middle.
Provenance
Part of the Bristol Collection. Acquired by the National Trust in 1956 under the auspices of the National Land Fund, later the National Heritage Memorial Fund.
Credit line
Ickworth, The Bristol Collection (acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to The National Trust in 1956)
Marks and inscriptions
Frederick Hervey, Bishop of Derry
Makers and roles
attributed to Johann Zoffany, RA (Frankfurt am Main 1733 - Kew 1810), publisher
References
Farrer 1908 Edmund Farrer, Portraits in Suffolk Houses (West), 1908, no. 62