Called Jacques-Philippe d’Hervart, Baron de St Legier (d.1780)
Johann Rudolf Huber (Basel 1668 - Basel 1748)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1729 (on reverse)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
810 x 640 mm
Place of origin
Switzerland
Order this imageCollection
Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
NT 959495
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Called Jacques-Philippe d’Hervart, Baron de St Legier (d.1780) by Johann Rudolf Huber (Basel 1668 - Basel 1748), 1729. A half-length portrait of a gentleman (believed to be Baron d'Hervart), wearing a grey coat and tricorn hat. Born in Basel, the Swiss portrait artist Johann Rudolph Huber completed his training in Bern, where he settled in 1702. He executed numerous portraits of the Bern patriciate, including members of the Hervart and Duntz families, relations of Sabine, Lady Winn, the 5th Baronet's Swiss wife. This portrait, along with many other heirlooms of the Hervart family, was shipped from their home in Vevey to Nostell in 1781, on the death of Sabine's mother, the Baronne D'Hervart. The Baron d'Hervart was the father of Sabine, Lady Winn, wife of the 5th Baronet.
Provenance
Commissioned by the sitter in Vevey, Switzerland, by whom bequeathed to his daughter Sabine, Lady Winn (d. 1789), wife of Sir Rowland Winn, Bt. (d. 1786), and by descent at Nostell Priory, Yorkshire; purchased by the National Trust by private treaty sale from Lord St Oswald in 2010
Credit line
Nostell Priory, The St Oswald Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
On the back of the (original) canvas: JRH Huber pinxit 1729
Makers and roles
Johann Rudolf Huber (Basel 1668 - Basel 1748) , artist
References
Brockwell 1915 Maurice Walter Brockwell, Catalogue of the Pictures and Other Works of Art in the Collection of Lord St Oswald at Nostell Priory, London 1915, cat. 191