Mary Bold, Mrs Thomas III Hunt (1740-1824)
George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734 – Kendal 1802)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1769
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1270 x 1016 mm (50 x 40 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 884957
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Mary Bold, Mrs Thomas III Hunt (1740 - 1824) by George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734 – Kendal 1802), circa 1769. A three-quarter-length portrait of the wife of Thomas Hunt III (1721 - 88) facing, standing in a landscape, her left arm resting on a pedestal, wearing a yellow and white dress with a pale blue cloak.
Provenance
Presumably at Bold Hall, until that was sold by the sitter in 1797 [or 1798], and at Lanhydrock after she inherited from her uncle in 1798 (in any case, not in her London house, no.76 South Audley Street, at her death), but subsequently for a time in the Lord Robartes / Clifdens’ London house? (since not recorded at Lanhydrock in the year of the fire, 1881);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 (The National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
On gilt label on frame: MARY, d. of T. Bold wife of Thomas Hunt./ROMNEY
Makers and roles
George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734 – Kendal 1802), artist
References
George Romney 1734-1802, Alex Kidson, London and Princeton 2002, no. 26 , p.78