The Hands and Waist of John Ivory Talbot (1687 - 1772) (a fragment)
after Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1659 - London 1743)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1730 - 1799
Materials
Oil on canvas
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 996278.2
Caption
This is the remaining piece of canvas, from which the central section was cut out in an octagonal shape in the 1950s. This piece was sent to the attic, while the cut-out portrait was hung in the Ballroom to fit an empty octagonal frame over a door. 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, The Hands and Waist of John Ivory Talbot (1687 - 1772) (a fragment), after Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1656/9 – London 1743), circa 1730.
Provenance
Bought by private treaty from Petronella Dittmer, Mrs Burnett-Brown, 2009
Credit line
Lacock Abbey, The Talbot Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
after Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1659 - London 1743), artist