Katherine Hoby, Mrs Griffith Rice
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1695 - circa 1705
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1618 x 1377 x 1733 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Dinefwr, Carmarthenshire
NT 869201
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Katherine Hoby, Mrs Griffith Rice, English School, circa 1695 - 1705. Painted in the manner of Kneller. A seated portrait of the wife of Griffith Rice MP (1667-1729) of Newton and daughter of Philip Hob(b)y of Neath Abbey, wearing a blue dress and red mantle.
Provenance
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
British (English) School, artist previously catalogued as manner of Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723), artist
References
Steegman 1962 John Steegman, A Survey of Portraits in Welsh Houses, Vol. II: Houses in South Wales, Cardiff 1962, p.57, no.6