Possibly Frances Hort, Mrs John Parker (d.1764)
Thomas Hudson (Devonshire 1701 – Twickenham 1779)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1757 - 1764
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1270 x 1016 mm (50 x 40 in)
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Saltram, Devon
NT 872275
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Possibly Frances Hort, Mrs John Parker (d.1764) by Thomas Hudson (Devonshire 1701 – Twickenham 1779), inscribed: The Lady Katherine Parker/ b. 1706. A three-quarter-length portrait of possibly John Parker's first wife before they were married and who died on honeymoon in Naples. She is facing, in a landscape, in masquerade dress, holding a feather fan in her right hand; she wears an elaborate blue satin dress ornamented with lace and ropes of pearls, a white lace fichu, pearls in her hair and a large ostrich feather hat.
Provenance
Probably with Sir John Hort (1735 - 1807), the sitter's brother, from circa 1795 and returned by 1844 inventory and thence by descent; accepted by the Treasury in part payment of death-duties from the executors of Edmund Robert Parker, 4th Earl of Morley (1877-1951) and transferred to the Trust in 1957.
Credit line
Saltram, The Morley Collection (accepted in lieu of tax by HM Government and transferred to the National Trust in 1957)
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: Inscribed in gold, bottom left: The Lady Katharine Parker, / b:1706
Makers and roles
Thomas Hudson (Devonshire 1701 – Twickenham 1779), artist