Elizabeth Hunt
manner of Thomas Hudson (Devonshire 1701 – Twickenham 1779) and Joseph van Aken (Antwerp 1709 - London 1749)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1750 - 1755
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1270 x 1016 mm (50 x 40 in)
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 884949
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Elizabeth Hunt, manner of Thomas Hudson (Devonshire 1701 – Twickenham 1779) and Joseph Van Aken (c.1699 - 1749), circa 1750/55. A three-quarter-length of portrait of the second daughter of Thomas Hunt II (1684 - 1739), facing and standing in a landscape. She is wearing a black dress with white sleeves, trimmed with pink bows, a large black hat with feathers, holding an ostrich feather in her left hand.
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 gilt label on frame) ELIZABETH, d. of Thomas Hunt/HUDSON
Makers and roles
manner of Thomas Hudson (Devonshire 1701 – Twickenham 1779) and Joseph van Aken (Antwerp 1709 - London 1749), artist
References
Solkin 2015 David H. Solkin, Art in Britain 1660 - 1815, Pelican History of Art, Yale University Press, 2015, p. 130, figs. 133 & 134 for comparative works by Hudson and Ramsay with Jan van Aken assistance