Sir Rowland Winn, 4th Bt (1706 -1765)
Henry Pickering (fl.1740 – Manchester 1771)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1752 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
2340 x 1480 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
NT 960069
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Sir Rowland Winn, 4th Bt (1706 -1765) by Henry Pickering (fl.1740 – Manchester 1771), signed and dated: H. Pickering pinxt 1752. A full-length portrait of Sir Rowland Winn 4th Baronet, the builder of Nostell Priory, standing, in brown coat and gold waistcoat, by a table and pointing at Nostell Priory, within an architectural frame. The frame is crowned by the Winn eagle and coat of arms, and decorated with the mask of Mercury, god of trade and commerce (the source of the family's wealth).
Provenance
Accepted by HM Treasury in lieu of death duties on the estate of Rowland Winn, 4th Baron Oswald (1916 - 1984), 1986
Credit line
Nostell Priory, The St Oswald Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
1752 (signed and dated)
Makers and roles
Henry Pickering (fl.1740 – Manchester 1771), 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. 324, plate XL