John Ivory Talbot (1687 - 1772) (a fragment)
after Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1659 - London 1743)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1730
Materials
Oil on canvas (octagonal)
Measurements
787 x 635 mm (31 x 25 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 996278.1
Caption
This octagonal picture was cut from rectangular canvas, the remains of which are in the attic. It was reduced in the 1950s to fit an empty octagonal frame over a door in the Ballroom. The lop-sided composition is due to damages that had to be avoided when it was cut. The original version is also at Lacock. Son of Anne Talbot (1665 – 1720) and Sir John Ivory (1655 – 1695), John succeeded his grandfather, Sir John Talbot (1630 – 1714), at Lacock, and changed his name to Talbot to acknowledge the source of his good fortune. He married Mary, daughter of 3rd Lord Mansel of Margam, whose behaviour is said to have driven him to drink. He is most famous for transforming Lacock, beginning by remodelling the Dining Room in a classical style, but in 1753 he was introduced to the architect Sanderson Miller, a pioneering advocate of the new Gothick style.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas (octagonal), John Ivory Talbot (1687 -1772) (a fragment), after Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1656/9 – London 1743). A head-and-shoulders portrait, wearing a blue coat, of John Ivory Talbot (1687 -1772), cut to an octagonal and a remnant with the hands of the sitter was found in the attic. It is a copy of LAC/P/58 in Stone Gallery and replaced a Holbein which was sold by the family and is now in a collection in America.
Provenance
Given with Lacock Abbey by Matilda Theresa Gilchrist-Clark Talbot (1871-1958) in 1948
Credit line
Lacock Abbey, The Talbot Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
after Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1659 - London 1743), artist