Lady Anne Fitzgerald, Mrs Francis Robartes
Henri Gascar (Paris 1634/5 - Rome 1701)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1686
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1041 x 813 mm (41 x 32 in)
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 884918
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Lady Anne Fitzgerald, Mrs Francis Robartes by Henri Gascars (Paris 1634 – Rome 1701), 1686. A three-quarter-length portrait of Anne Fitzgerald, second wife of Francis Robartes after 1686. [or possibly Penelope Pole (Carew), from Antony, Cornwall, first wife of the Hon. Francis Robartes] She is seated on a chaise longue in front of a yellow curtain embroidered with silver, her left elbow resting on a cushion, a greenfinch perched on her right hand, wearing a blue cloak over a white shift with lace at elbows and neck; a landscape left.
Provenance
By inheritance, through the sitter's half-nephew, Charles, 2nd Earl of Radnor, until given by Gerald, 7th Viscount Clifden (1887 - 1974), with the transfer of the house to the National Trust in 1953
Credit line
Lanhydrock, The Robartes Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: Frame tablet: Honble. Mrs. Robartes
Makers and roles
Henri Gascar (Paris 1634/5 - Rome 1701), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Nicholas Mignard (Troyes 1606 - Paris 1668) , artist manner of Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723), artist