Called Sir Rowland Winn, 4th Bt (1706 - 1765) but probably a Member of the d'Hervart Family
Swiss School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1700 - 1799
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
787 x 648 mm (31 x 25½ in)
Place of origin
Switzerland
Order this imageCollection
Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
NT 959499
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Called Sir Rowland Winn, 4th Bt (1706 - 1765) but probably a Member of the d'Hervart Family, Swiss School. A half-length portrait of a man, in a painted octagon, wearing a green coat, white shirt and red cloak. Though this painting is traditionally called 'Sir Rowland Winn, 4th Baronet', it would be surprising if the 4th Baronet and his wife, Susannah (née Henshaw), were ever painted by a Swiss artist, such as Huber, to whom this portrait was formerly attributed. The 4th Baronet travelled to Germany and Switzerland as a young man on the Grand Tour, but there is no record that he ever visited with his wife. In 1761, he travelled to Vevey in Switzerland to inspect his eldest son's bride, Sabine, but by then both Huber and Susannah had died. The sitter is probably a member of the Hervart family.
Provenance
Sabine heirloom, 1781; 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)
Makers and roles
Swiss School, artist previously catalogued as attributed to Johann Rudolf Huber (Basel 1668 - Basel 1748) , artist previously catalogued as attributed to Constantin Netscher (1668 - 1723), 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. no. 241