Gertrude Walrond, Lady Acland (1853-1920)
Wilhelm Heinrich Funk (b.1886)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1890 - 1899
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1244 x 991 mm (49 x 39 in)
Order this imageCollection
Killerton, Devon
NT 922274
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Gertrude Walrond, Lady Acland (1853-1920) by Wilhelm Heinrich Funk (1886-1915), signed in red, mid-left: Wilhelm H. Funk/fecit and dated on inscription 1890 or 1899 (?). A portrait of a middle-aged woman, three-quarter-length, three-quarter profile, seated turned to the left, gazing to the left, and wearing a voluminous white satin dress trimmed with gold braid, and an ermine-lined dark green velvet cloak, draped on the right. There is a red curtain behind, pulled back to reveal a garden at the left, above a collie(?) dog by her side. Daughter of Sir John Walrond, 1st Bt and Hon. Frances Caroline Hood. In 1879 she married the future Sir Charles Thomas Dyke Acland, 12th Bt (1842-1919) but they had no children.
Provenance
By descent until acquired by the National Trust in lieu in 1995
Credit line
Killerton, The Acland Collection (accepted in lieu by HM Government and transferred to The National Trust in 1995)
Marks and inscriptions
Signed in red, centre left: : Signed in red: Wilhelm H. Funk / fecit Inscribed in red, top right (after coat of arms of Acland impaled with [presumably] Walrond): Inscribed: Lady Acland / 1899 (?).
Makers and roles
Wilhelm Heinrich Funk (b.1886), artist
References
Killerton House, Devon, 2000 [The National Trust] 2000, p.15: "THE DRAWING ROOM. CLOCKWISE FROM SECOND FIREPLACE: Sir Charles's wife, Gergtrude Walrond (b.1853), by W.H.Funk (b.1886). A keen gardener. In the background are the hills of Holnicote, the Acland estate on Exmoor, which also belongs to the National Trust."