Called Lucy Trevor, Mrs (Edward) Rice (1706-1786), but possibly really Mary de Cardonnel, Countess Talbot (c.1719 - 1787)
attributed to John Vanderbank the younger (London 1694 - London 1739)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1733 - circa 1737
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1270 x 1016 mm (50 x 40 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Dinefwr, Carmarthenshire
NT 869198
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Called Lucy Trevor, Mrs Edward Rice (1706-1786), but possibly really Mary de Cardonnel, Countess Talbot, attributed to John Vanderbank the younger (London 1694 - London 1739), circa 1730. A half-length portrait of a lady, in a landscape, seated to the left and facing, resting her head on her right hand and holding a book in her left hand in her lap.
Provenance
According to Gulston in Eating Room in c. 1784; thereafter by descent; acquired by the National Trust from Richard Charles Uryan Rhys, 9th Baron Dynevor (1935 – 2008), with the aid of the NHMF in 1997
Credit line
Newton House, Dinefwr, The Dynevor Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
attributed to John Vanderbank the younger (London 1694 - London 1739), artist
References
Steegman 1962 John Steegman, A Survey of Portraits in Welsh Houses, Vol. II: Houses in South Wales, Cardiff 1962, p. 58, no. 9