The Hon. Hariote Yelverton, holding a Lamb
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1720 - circa 1730
Materials
oil on canvas
Measurements
1245 x 991 mm (49 x 39 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 996336
Caption
Hariote Yelverton was the daughter of (Sir) Henry (Yelverton), 15th Baron Grey de Ruthyn and 1st Viscount de Longueville and Barbara Talbot. The lamb is perhaps an allusion St Agnes, the patroness of those engaged to be married
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Hon. Hariote Yelverton, holding a Lamb, British (English) School, circa 1720-30. A three-quarter-length seated portrait of a young woman in a landscape, with a lamb appearing from under her arm. Wearing a blue dress, she is draped in a pink cloak, and holds a string of flowers in her hands.
Full description
Presumably the daughter of Henry (Yelverton), 15th Baron Grey de Ruthyn and 1st Viscount de Longueville (c.1664 – 1703/4) [P/65] and Barbara Talbot (c.1670 – 1763) [P/32 & 63]. The sitter may be the same lady, called Hariote Yelverton, who appears in P/73, which appears to be the basis for this painting.
Provenance
not fully known, but perhaps given by her parents, the Viscount and Viscountess de Longueville, to her grandfather, Sir John Talbot (1630 – 1714); thence by descent until given by Matilda Theresa Talbot (formerly Gilchrist-Clark) (1871 – 1958), who gave the Abbey, the village of Lacock and the rest of the estate to the National Trust in 1944, along with 96 of the family portraits and other pictures, in 1948
Credit line
Lacock Abbey, The Talbot Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
British (English) School, artist previously catalogued as manner of Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1659 - London 1743), artist