The Hon. Hariote Yelverton
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1720 - circa 1730
Materials
oil on canvas
Measurements
895 x 686 mm (35 1/4 x 27 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 996338
Caption
Hariote Yelverton was the daughter of (Sir) Henry (Yelverton), 15th Baron Grey de Ruthyn and 1st Viscount de Longueville and Barbara Talbot.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Hon. Hariote Yelverton (b. before 1704), British (English) School, circa 1720-1730. A half-length portrait of a young woman, facing the viewer, with her head turned slightly to the left, wearing a white satin dress and a blue cloak over her left arm.
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]. Probably worked-up and varied from P/71.
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 to Sir John Ivory († 1695), who according to the inscription on the back of the canvas, must have given it to his daughter Barbara († 1748), who gave it to her son, the Rev. William Davenport, in 1738 (ten years before her death), who married Martha Talbot; and thence by descent until given by Matilda Theresa Talbot (formerly Gilchrist-Clarke) (1871 – 1958), who gave Lacock Abbey, its essential contents, and the village and estate of Lacock to the National Trust in 1944, and the pictures in 1948.
Credit line
Lacock Abbey, The Talbot Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: This picture of Miss Hariote Yelverton is my wife’s 16 July 1730 Hen Davenport. This is given Willm Davenport by Bar Davenport May 1738
Makers and roles
British (English) School, artist