Show me:
and
Clear all filters

  • 35 items
  • 25 items Explore
  • 89 items
  • 1 items
  • 3,438 items Explore
  • 97 items Explore
  • 280 items
  • 4 items
  • 220 items
  • 13,229 items Explore
  • 209 items Explore
  • 1,225 items Explore
  • 8,732 items Explore
  • 5,089 items Explore
  • 9 items Explore
  • 167 items Explore
  • 12,983 items Explore
  • 13,621 items Explore
  • 4,810 items Explore
  • 1 items
  • 5 items
  • 149 items Explore
  • 2,007 items Explore
  • 4,759 items Explore
  • 15 items Explore
  • 422 items Explore
  • 252 items
  • 100 items Explore
  • 19,964 items Explore
  • 34 items Explore
  • 1,924 items Explore
  • 1,083 items Explore
  • 5 items
  • 2,073 items Explore
  • 2 items
  • 456 items Explore
  • 917 items Explore
  • 1 items Explore
  • 5 items
  • 7 items
  • 20,274 items Explore
  • 800 items Explore
  • 19 items
  • 73 items Explore
  • 33 items
  • 793 items
  • 20 items
  • 4 items
  • 26 items
  • 61 items
  • 28 items
  • 319 items Explore
  • 6 items
  • 44 items Explore
  • 1 items
  • 2 items
  • 2 items
  • 7 items
  • 1 items
  • 121 items Explore
  • 119 items
  • 1 items
  • 976 items Explore
  • 812 items
  • 95 items
  • 27 items
  • 107 items
  • 37,169 items Explore
  • 1 items
  • 3,870 items Explore
  • 1,529 items Explore
  • 403 items
  • 125 items Explore
  • 10,413 items Explore
  • 9,684 items Explore
  • 4 items
  • 1 items
  • 38 items
  • 3 items
  • 4 items
  • 6,778 items Explore
  • 7,359 items Explore
  • 4,583 items Explore
  • 1,893 items Explore
  • 1,194 items Explore
  • 22,723 items Explore
  • 3,663 items Explore
  • 17 items
  • 5 items
  • 334 items
  • 1 items
  • 1 items
  • 3,350 items Explore
  • 23 items Explore
  • 352 items Explore
  • 796 items Explore
  • 1,093 items Explore
  • 514 items Explore
  • 1,146 items Explore
  • 89 items
  • 125 items Explore
  • 6,955 items Explore
  • 76 items
  • 310 items
  • 4 items
  • 2 items
  • 63 items
  • 2 items
  • 2,909 items Explore
  • 1,582 items Explore
  • 203 items
  • 90 items
  • 22,137 items Explore
  • 1,322 items Explore
  • 138 items
  • 847 items Explore
  • 32 items
  • 1 items
  • 132 items Explore
  • 40 items
  • 20 items
  • 281 items
  • 313 items
  • 685 items Explore
  • 346 items Explore
  • 2,429 items
  • 2,545 items
  • 3 items
  • 1 items
  • 1 items
  • 4,394 items Explore
  • 40,347 items Explore
  • 1 items
  • 3,293 items Explore
  • 275 items Explore
  • 8,702 items Explore
  • 31 items
  • 25 items
  • 304 items Explore
  • 777 items Explore
  • 3 items
  • 65 items
  • 161 items
  • 50 items
  • 52 items
  • 23,085 items Explore
  • 917 items
  • 66 items
  • 22,636 items Explore
  • 2 items
  • 2,337 items Explore
  • 1 items
  • 1,028 items Explore
  • 4 items
  • 759 items
  • 499 items
  • 4 items
  • 3,309 items Explore
  • 179 items
  • 59 items
  • 454 items Explore
  • 3 items
  • 21 items
  • 90 items Explore
  • 76 items
  • 281 items Explore
  • 1 items
  • 6 items
  • 128 items
  • 295 items
  • 447 items
  • 284 items
  • 1 items
  • 906 items Explore
  • 271 items Explore
  • 11,294 items Explore
  • 755 items Explore
  • 6,035 items Explore
  • 2 items
  • 8,298 items Explore
  • 27 items
  • 1 items
  • 5,965 items Explore
  • 4 items
  • 3,725 items Explore
  • 9,182 items Explore
  • 7,884 items Explore
  • 185 items
  • 19 items
  • 144 items
  • 7 items
  • 853 items Explore
  • 19 items
  • 8 items
  • 1,096 items Explore
  • 269 items
  • 1 items
  • 2,053 items
  • 3,522 items Explore
  • 695 items Explore
  • 18 items
  • 134 items
  • 6,743 items Explore
  • 93 items
  • 18,936 items Explore
  • 3,136 items Explore
  • 1 items
  • 1 items
  • 7 items
  • 10,982 items Explore
  • 37 items
  • 2 items
  • 21,540 items Explore
  • 38 items
  • 13,281 items Explore
  • 3,461 items Explore
  • 5,689 items Explore
  • 33 items
  • 49,695 items Explore
  • 646 items Explore
  • 417 items
  • 26,703 items Explore
  • 216 items
  • 3 items
  • 6 items
  • 1 items
  • 35 items
  • 27 items
  • 438 items Explore
  • 636 items
  • 204 items Explore
  • 13 items
  • 13,667 items Explore
  • 1,360 items Explore
  • 3 items
  • 10,260 items
  • 9 items
  • 10 items
  • 14 items
  • 25 items
  • 1 items
  • 4,521 items Explore
  • 912 items Explore
  • 1 items
  • 1 items
  • 314 items
  • 686 items Explore
  • 42 items
  • 4 items
  • 2,286 items Explore
  • 1,662 items Explore
  • 15 items
  • 1,876 items Explore
  • 150 items
  • 81 items
  • 766 items Explore
  • 3,083 items Explore
  • 44 items
  • 17 items
  • 12 items
  • 10,670 items Explore
  • 23,346 items Explore
  • 3 items
  • 1 items
  • 41 items
  • 1,374 items
  • 179 items Explore
  • 8 items
  • 84 items
  • 1 items
  • 13,570 items Explore
  • 3,582 items Explore
  • 2,904 items Explore
  • 4,798 items Explore
  • 22 items
  • 42 items
  • 6,910 items Explore
  • 4,841 items Explore
  • 256 items Explore
  • 2,300 items Explore
  • 2,975 items Explore
  • 2 items
  • 1,897 items Explore
  • 193 items
  • 223 items Explore
  • 466 items Explore
  • 6,118 items Explore
  • 8,729 items Explore
  • 1,860 items Explore
  • 3 items
  • 1 items
  • 5,935 items Explore
  • 3,354 items Explore
  • 11,132 items Explore
  • 1 items
  • 84 items
  • 11 items
  • 2,502 items Explore
  • 7 items
  • 24 items
  • 51 items
  • 6 items
  • 1 items
  • 4,257 items Explore
  • 611 items Explore
  • 70 items
  • 17 items
  • 154 items Explore
  • 1 items
  • 95 items Explore
  • 460 items
  • 4 items
  • 996 items Explore
  • 3,553 items Explore
  • 4 items
  • 5 items
  • 9,496 items Explore
  • 48 items Explore
  • 3 items
  • 7 items
  • 42 items
  • 3 items
  • 13,789 items Explore
  • 1,162 items Explore
  • 92 items
  • 10,561 items Explore
  • 1,920 items
  • 18 items
  • 7,880 items Explore
  • 21 items
  • 12,950 items Explore
  • 1,401 items Explore
  • 8 items
  • 6,169 items Explore
  • 14,874 items Explore
  • 4 items
  • 1,667 items Explore
  • 181 items Explore
  • 4 items
  • 15 items
  • 5,686 items Explore
  • 12,284 items Explore
  • 48 items
  • 25 items
  • 2 items
  • 3 items
  • 7,215 items Explore
  • 357 items Explore
  • 13 items
  • 4 items
  • 6 items
  • 103 items Explore
  • 7 items
  • 5 items
  • 485 items
  • 666 items Explore
  • 8,372 items Explore
  • 75 items
  • 7,347 items Explore
  • 5 items
  • 26 items
  • 4,606 items Explore
  • 428 items
  • 339 items Explore
  • 12,702 items Explore
  • 55 items
  • 20 items
  • 7 items
  • 4 items
  • 325 items Explore
  • 427 items
  • 458 items
  • 3,704 items Explore
  • 27 items
  • 1,238 items Explore
  • 2,503 items Explore
  • 733 items Explore
  • 36 items
  • 1,136 items Explore
  • 97 items Explore
  • 24 items
  • 228 items Explore
  • 79,970 items Explore
  • 3,135 items Explore
  • 2,874 items Explore
  • 25 items
  • 5,345 items Explore
  • 1,831 items Explore
  • 4 items
  • 17,513 items Explore
  • 4,930 items Explore
  • 1 items
  • 7 items
  • 631 items Explore
  • 85 items
  • 31 items
  • 1 items
  • 76 items
  • 29 items
  • 86 items
  • 3 items
  • 1,176 items Explore
  • 109 items
  • 805 items
  • 12,446 items Explore
  • 27 items
  • 13 items
  • 1,710 items Explore
  • 214 items
  • 17,037 items Explore
  • 85 items
  • 17 items
  • 1 items
  • 8 items
  • 324 items
  • 2 items
  • 626 items Explore
  • 1,597 items Explore
  • 8 items
  • 1,130 items Explore
  • 375 items
  • 2 items
  • 326 items

Select a time period

Or choose a specific year

Clear all filters

Lydia Elizabeth Hoare, Lady Acland (1786-1856) with her Two Sons Thomas later 11th Bt (1809-1898) and Arthur (1811-1857)

Sir Thomas Lawrence, PRA (Bristol 1769 – London 1830)

Category

Art / Oil paintings

Date

1814 - 1818 (exh at RA)

Materials

Oil on canvas

Measurements

1524 x 1168 mm (60 x 46 in)

Order this image

Collection

Killerton, Devon

NT 922303

Summary

Oil painting on canvas, Lydia Elizabeth Hoare, Lady Acland (1786-1856) with her Two Sons, Thomas later 11th Bt (1809-1898) and Arthur (1811-1857) by Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA (1769-1830). Three portraits. (i) Lady Acland was the only daughter of Henry Hoare (1750-1820) and Lydia Henrietta Mallortie and in 1808 married Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 10th Bt (1787-1871). She was a member of the Hoare banking family. (ii) Sir Thomas Dyke Acland later 11th Bt was the son of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland 10th Bt (1787-1871) and Lydia Hoare (1786-1856) He married (i) in 1841 Mary Mordaunt (d.1851) and (ii) in 1892 Mary Erskine (d. 1892); politician and educational reformer, MP for Somerset West. Devonshire, Wellington respectively. (iii) Arthur Acland was the son of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 10th Bt (1787-1871) and Lydia Hoare (1786-1856), he married in 1835, Frances Williams, daughter of Robert Williams of Bridehead, Dorset. Lady Acland is seated on a sofa, three-quarter length, turned and looking up to the left, she is wearing a brown dress and patterned black shawl draped over her shoulders, her right arm around Arthur who stands on the sofa on the left beside her wearing a lilac dress. With his left hand he touches Thomas's right shoulder. Thomas stands on the sofa behind Lady Acland on the right and is wearing a white shift. A Cashmere shawl draped over the back of the sofa to the right. Lady Acland holds a boy's red velvet cap in her left hand, and the spaniel, Bronte, looks up and in from the bottom right. In a gilt frame.

Provenance

Commissioned by Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 10th Bt. (1787-1871) in 1814; thence by descent; bought by private treaty sale by National Trust, 1991 Past exhibitions Royal Academy 1818 no 25 Royal Academy Loan Exhibition of Old Masters 1904 no 111 Agnews, Brighton, Lawrence 1951, no 201 Sotheby's, London, Childhood, 1988 bo 88

Credit line

Killerton, The Acland Collection (National Trust)

Makers and roles

Sir Thomas Lawrence, PRA (Bristol 1769 – London 1830), artist

References

Gower 1900 Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower, Sir Thomas Lawrence, London 1900, p.104 Old Masters and deceased Masters of the British School, including a special selection of works by Sir T. Lawrence, P.R.A., and a collection of sculptures and bronzes. Royal Academy, 4th January-12th March 1904, No.111 Armstrong, 1913: Sir Walter Armstrong, Lawrence, London, 1913, p.108 Garlick 1951: Kenneth Garlick, 'Some Notes on Sir Thomas Lawrence', Burlington Magazine, XCIII, August 1951 , p.249 Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Sir Thomas Lawrence P.R.A. (exh cat) Agnew's, London, 17 May - 23 June 1951, No.4 Sir Thomas Lawrence, PRA, Bristol City Art Gallery, 1951, No.23 First Hundred Years of the Royal Academy, 1769-186, Royal Academy, 1951-1952 , "SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE PRA (1769-1830) 201. Portraits of Lady Acland and her children, R.A.1818 Lent by SIR RICHARD ACLAND, BART Canvas 61 x 48 1/2 in. Coll. Painted for Sir Thomas Dyke Acland Exh: RA 1904 (111); Agnew's 1951 (4); Bristol, 1951. Lit. Lord R. Sutherland Gower, Lawrence 1900, p.104' Sir W. Armstrong, lawrence 1913, p.108; K. Garlick, in Burlington Magazine 1951, XCIII, p.249 Engr: S. Cousins, 1826 Lady Lydia Elizabeth Acland (spelt Ackland in the 1818 RA catalogue; d.1856) and her two sons Thomas (1809-1898) on the right, and Arthur (1811-1857). She was the daughter of Henry Hoare and married Sir Thomas yke Acland, 10th Baronet. The picture was painted 1814/15." Garlick 1954 Kenneth Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence, London, 1954, p.23 and plate 82: "CATALOGUE. ACLAND, Lydia Elizabeth (Hoare), Lady (1786-1856), with her sons, Thomas (1809-98) and Arthur (1811-57). R.A. 1818 (25): 154 x 118: Sir Richard Acland, Bt. Killerton. Mezz. S. Cousins. Repr. Plate 82." Garlick 1962-64 Kenneth Garlick, A Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings and Pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence, Walpole Society, Vol. xxxix, 1962-64, p.133, No.9 Acland, 1981: Lady Acland. A Devon family: the story of the Aclands. London: Phillimore, 1981., Plate: XI Childhood Exhibition, Sotheby's, London 1988, No.88 Garlick 1989 Kenneth Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence. A complete catalogue of the oil paintings, Oxford, 1989, No.9. p.133: "Acland. 9. Lydia, Lady Acland (1786-1856), with her sons Thomas (1809-98), later 11th Bt., and Arthur (1811-57) Lydia Elizabeth, only daughter of Henry Hoare of Mitcham Grove (no.410), married Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 19th Bt., in 1808. 1817-18. Canvas, 61 x 48 1/2 (155 x 123.2). Sir Richard Dyke Acland, Bt. Provenance: By family descent Engravings: Mezzotint, S. Cousins, 1820. Exhibitions: R.A. 1818 (25); R.A. Old Masters, 1904 (iii); Agnew, Lawrence, 1951 (4); Bristol, Lawrence, 1951 (23); R.A. First Hundred Years, 1951 (201) References: Gower, p.104; Armstrong, p.108; Garlick, p.15."

View more details