Called Frances Hender, Lady Robartes (d.1626)
Flemish School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1600 - 1629
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
610 mm (24 in) diameter
Place of origin
Flanders (Belgium from 1830)
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 884898
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Called Frances Hender, Lady Robartes (d. 1626), Flemish School, early 17th century. A circular painting of the presumed portrait of Frances Hender, wife of Sir Richard Robartes whom she married in 1598, wearing a black and jewelled dress with a wide lace collar and a long string of pearls. The painting has been adapted, not originally a tondo, to be a pendant of NT 884897 which was ascribed to be a portrait of Sir Richard Robartes but is in fact John Robartes, his son and a 20th century copy, therefore the lady is unknown.
Provenance
By descent, until given by Gerald, 7th Viscount Clifden (1883-1966), with the transfer of the house to the National Trust in 1953
Credit line
Lanhydrock, The Robartes Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
(on label FRANCES - Wife of/SIR RICHARD ROBARTES/C.JANSSEN Verso: Inscribed on old label on back of stretcher (in same hand as LAN.P.61 [Gore no. 33] etc.): Frances daughter and Coheiress of / John Hender of Botreaux Castle / Wife to Sir Richard Robartes Bart / (the First Lord Robartes) / Painted by Nicholas Hillier
Makers and roles
Flemish School, artist previously catalogued as manner of Cornelius Johnson (London 1593 - Utrecht 1661), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Nicholas Hilliard (Exeter c.1547 – London 1619), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Paulus van Somer the elder (Antwerp 1576 – London 1621), artist