The Hon. Francis Robartes, MP (1650 - 1718)
Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646/9 - London 1723)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1678
Materials
Oil on (twill) canvas
Measurements
813 x 1041 mm (32 x 41 in) (oval)
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Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 884917
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Hon. Francis Robartes, MP (1650 - 1718) Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723), 1678. A three-quarter-length portrait, framed as an oval, of the son of the 1st Earl of Radnor, seated to right, wearing a long wig and a blue cloak with the full white sleeve of his right arm visible. A house in a landscape can be seen in the background.
Provenance
By inheritance and descent; given by Victor, 8th Viscount Clifden (1887-1974), in 1969.
Credit line
Lanhydrock, The Robartes Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: Frame tablet: Honble Francis Robartes
Makers and roles
Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646/9 - London 1723), artist previously catalogued as manner of Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646/9 - London 1723), artist