Lady Anne Hervey (1707-1771) as a Child
Joseph Brook (d.1725)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1709
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
730 x 610 mm (28 ¾ x 24 in)
Order this imageCollection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 851821
Summary
Oil painting n canvas, Lady Anne Hervey (1707-1771) as a Child, by Joseph Brook (fl.1690 - d.1725), painted in top left corner 'Lady Ann Hervey', 1709. A full-length portrait of a nude child, seated, swathed in white on a seat draped in blue, a wreath of flowers in her hair, holding a dove; the background composed of a dark brown curtain and a smalllandscape dimly seen through a window on the right. Lady Ann was the 11th child of John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol (1665-1751), and the eighth by his second wife, Elizabeth Felton (1676-1741). She was born at Windsor and Queen Anne was her godmother. She later lived just east of the present law courts in Bury St Edmunds, in a house bisected by the wall of the Abbey; it was later used by the Registrar of Marriages. She is buried at Ickworth. A favourite child of Lord Bristol’s, called by him ‘Nan’, and “my sans pareille daughter Ann” (Diary, 23rd Nov. 1711, p.55).As proudly noted by Lord Hervey in his Diary on 27th July (p.46): “Sunday, my said daughter was baptiz’d by Mr. Thomas Dawson, Vicar of Windsor, & named Ann, our good, great, & gracious Queen, ye Duchess of Somerset (our cousin), & ye Marquis of Kent her said Majestys Lord Chamberlain answering for her.”
Provenance
Previously with the Oakes family, Nowton Court; bought for Ickworth by Theodora, Marchioness of Bristol (1875-1957) and given by her to the National Trust, when the house and its contents were accepted in lieu of tax by HM Treasury 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
Top left corner 'Lady Ann Hervey'.
Makers and roles
Joseph Brook (d.1725), artist
References
Farrer 1908 Edmund Farrer, Portraits in Suffolk Houses (West), 1908, p.271, Nowton Court, no.4