Maria Palmer Acland, Lady Hoare (d.1845) with her son, later Sir Hugh Richard Hoare, 4th Bt (1787-1857), aged 7
Samuel Woodforde, R.A. (Ansford 1763 - Ferrara 1817)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1794 (dated) - 1797 (exh at RA)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
768 x 476 mm (30 1/4 x 18 3/4 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Killerton, Devon
NT 922306
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Maria Palmer Acland, Lady Hoare (d.1845) with her son, who later became Sir Hugh Richard Hoare, 4th Bt (1787-1857), aged 7 by Samuel Woodforde RA (1763-1817), dated 1794 and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1797. Maria was the daughter of Arthur Palmer Acland and married Sir Henry Hugh Hoare 3rd Bt. Henry was their eldest and married in 1819 Anne Tyrwhitt-Drake the daughter of Thomas Tyrwhitt Drake of Shardeloes. Portraits in a woodland landscape. Young woman on the left, standing full-length, turned slightly to the right, leaning on a tree stump, on which she had draped her white shawl. She is dressed in white with a blue ribbon belt just below the bust and wearing a small straw bonnet tied beneath the chin with a white ribbon. A Newfoundland dog sits beside her on the extreme left.Her small son at the right in a pose recalling that of Sir Richard Colt Hoare's son in the portrait of him with his father in the Hall at Stourhead is striding forward with his right leg, his right arm raised above his head holding a stick. Trees and woodland on the left, a small stream running on the right with a distant view of trees and sky.
Provenance
Bequeathed by Mrs McKechnie of Bathwick Hill, Bath to the National Trust in 1979
Makers and roles
Samuel Woodforde, R.A. (Ansford 1763 - Ferrara 1817), artist
References
Killerton House, Devon, 2000 [The National Trust] 2000, p.15. "THE DRAWING ROOM Maria Acland (d.1845), wife of Sir Henry Hugh Hoare, 3rd Bt. of Stourhead, and their son, Hugh Richard, by Samuel Woodforde, 1796." Royal Academy, 1797