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Catalogue of Pictures

BELONGING TO

THE

EARL OF ILCHESTER

PRIVArELT PRINTED

1883

HE following Catalogue of pidlures, belonging to the Earl

of Ilchefter, has been compiled from a lift, which unfortu-

nately does not record the names of many of the painters

of the family portraits. It is believed that the informa- tion given is accurate as far as it goes, but fhould any further light be thrown hereafter upon the names of the artifts, it is trufted that thefe will be added by fome friendly hand, and that any errors obferved may be corre6led.

A. Fox Strangways.

June, 1883.

CONTENTS.

PAGE Pictures at Melbury ...... i

Pictures at Redlynch ...... 147

Pictures at Abbotsbury . . . . . • ^55

Pictures at 42, Belgrave Square . . . . 191

Index of Painters ...... 207

Index of Portraits ...... 213

PICTURES AT MELBURY,

DRAWING ROOM.

Catherine . . . Carlo Maratti, (1625-1713.)

T. CATHERINE of Alexandria, Nov. 25, a.d. 307, is the date given for her martyrdom. Patron Saint of Venice, philofophy, fcience, and

education. This Saint is faid to have been a niece of Conftantine the Great, but her legend, even among the Greeks, cannot be traced further back than the eighth century. Her counfellors prayed -her to marry,

but fhe could not be fatisfied with anything lefs than abfolute perfedlion, and the pidure of our Saviour being given to her.

His image fo filled her imagination that her time was fpent in contemplation. She dreamed that fhe was prefented to the King of Glory, but that he turned from her. Full of grief, fhe alked a hermit how fhe could become worthy of the King, and he then taught her the Chriflian faith and baptized her. She then had another dream, that fhe was again prefented to the King of Glory, and was accepted by him, and was betrothed to him. On waking fhe found the

ring on her finger, and from that time defpifed all things of this world. Later, after much perfecution, having refufed the Emperor Maximilian's offer of marriage, fhe was bound between four fpiked wheels, which turning in four different 4 DRAWING ROOM.

diredions, fhould rend her in pieces. But fire fell from Heaven and confumed the wheels. St. Catherine was then beheaded, and angels carried her body to its grave on Mount

Sinai. Square pifture, the figure of St. Catherine is three-quarters

length. She is reprefented with auburn hair ; her face is feen in three-quarters to the right, her eyes look down on a book which

refts on a portion of her diftindlive wheel, Handing perpendicularly

on a table. Her drefs is fimple, of dull greenifh-brown. Her figure turns to the right. See 283, 342.

2. Isle of Capri : . . Salvator Rofa, (16 14-1673.)

View taken from the Marina della Torre dell' Annunziata. rpj^^ i V , xozV. of Revigliano in front, Capri in the background, the

\ point of Campanella on the left, and the ifland of Ifchia feen in the diftance on the right. VefTels at anchor to the right. /

3. Landscape and Figures. . Z). Teniers, (1610-1694.)

Water, rocks, and caftellated buildings. To left trees. In foreground there are peafants, with cattle, fheep, and goats. This pidure was brought from Redlynch.

4. A Sea-Piece . . William Van de Velde. (1633- 1707.)

A rough fea with three vefTels of different kinds. A man is

reprefented in the foremoft trying to draw in fails. Small long fquare pifture.

5. Gypsies .... Wouvermans. (1620- 1668.) ^ypfy tent, with men and women and two children. A grey horfe, a brown horfe, and a foal lying down. Two goats in the

foreground, and three crows are feen flying ; a conical hill in the diftance. Small upright square pidure.

6. Christ, St. John and Lamb P. P. Rubens, (157 7- 1640.)

St. John, whofe arms encircle the lamb, is to the left ; he

looks into the face Infant is _ , of the Chrift, whofe hand placed on

/ the head of the lamb, and who is feated on a red drapery which J lies on the bank. Trees in background. A long fquare pidure. BRAWim ROOM, S

A pidhire fomewhat fimilar, with St. Francis in the back ground, was in the pofTefTion of Sir Alexander Crichton, m.d.,

at St. Peterfburg in 1 8 9. 1

Misers 7. and Death ... 7. Lievens. (1607-1663.) if\v4 Two old men fitting at a table, counting pieces of money which fall out of a leathern bag. The figure of Death appears in the background between them. Small fquare pifture.

J. Lievens was born at Leyden, 1607, came to England in the reign of Charles I., and died at Antwerp, 1663.

8. A Lady in a White Satin Dress G. Terburg. (1608-1681.) ^c^sc^

A woman feated on a crimfon chair with her back to the ''iJUht^4cL /'Ms, fpeftator. She has dark red brown hair. White jacket laced

'j. v.^ up the back with a red cord. Her right hand is extended on a , y> <>-|^/^ ^ table on which are a book and a bead necklace. Another woman (rvJV tv4'' Jtrr^ i0^r-0y,-^ in the background flands, her figure turned to the left ; fhe looks

at the lady who is fitting. In her hand fhe carries a falver and

' R,, filver cup. Small upright fquare pidlure.

This pidlure was given to Henry Stephen, Earl of Ilchefter, by his coufin the Rev. Charles Digby, fon of Hon. Stephen and Lady Lucy Digby. Terburg painted white fatin fo inimitably, that he generally

introduced it in his pidlures.

9. Siege of Naarden . . J Van Wyck, (1640- 1702.) The little city of Naarden on the coaft of the Zuyder

.It^. - Zee, twelve miles from Amfterdam, was taken by the French in 1672, and retaken by the Prince of Orange the following year, 1673.

A church on the height in the background ; tents, troops, and people to the left. On the right mounted foldiers in red uniforms,

riding away from the fpedator. In centre there is a figure on

horfeback apparently furrounded by ftaff. Long fquare pidlure.

This pidure is mentioned in Horace Walpole, Earl of

Orford's, Works, vol. iii., p. 380, quarto edition, 1798. 6 -DRAWING ROOM.

]sJote : — Lord Ilchefter has the Siege of Naarden by Van Wyck with King William, when Prince of Orange, com- manding." This pidlure was brought from Redlynch.

lo. Landscape with Cattle . Albert Cuyp, (1606-1672.)

Trees in the foreground on right. Sheep and cattle in centre. Cowfheds with trees to right. This pidure was brought from Redlynch.

II. Italian View . . . Gavin Hamilton, (d. 1797.)

Stone pines to left. Short pier running into the fea with ^ U-^ lighthoufe. A few veffels in centre of the foreground. Figures - on rocky ground in centre, alfo on the bank to the right. This pidure was brought from Redlynch.

12. Seizing a Convoy . . . Z ^ J* Ruyfdael. (d. 1681.)

Trees to the left. In the centre on raifed ground are waggons. Numbers of mounted men are Ikirmifliing in the background, and in the foreground others are fighting. Long fquare pidure.

' This pidure was brought from Redlynch. • idr't'

13. Landscape . . . Gafpar Poujfin. (1613-1675.)

Italian fcenery. Large tree to right. Hill feen in the back- ^ ground. Figure of a man Handing on rocky ground in the centre

of pidlure, which is a long fquare in form.

14. Interior of a Church . Peter Neefs. (1570-1651.)

Three chapels feen through pointed arches. In the centre one a large brafs chandelier with candles. Figures of men and women kneeling in nave of the church. Long fquare pidure.

15. View in Venice . . Antonio Canaletti. (1697-1768.) " View on the Grand Canal, with the " Sta. Maria della Salute

to left. BRAWING ROOM.

16. Portrait of Rembrandt . Rembrandt, (1606-1674.)

The figure of the artift, wearing a bufF drefs with crimfon girdle, black fur cloak, and a large black hat, faces the fpeflator. "^^.^iJi^ . " " In his left hand he carries a heavy ftick. Upright fquare pifture. This pidlure came from Redlynch.

17. Landscape . . . Gqfpar Pouffm. (1613-1675.) ^z^, \ Trees to left growing on rocks. Water flowing through valley C^vv-vv IfTsA I ^"^^T ' below. Curioufly fliaped rock in background to right.

18. Dutch Guard-House . . . . .A Palamedes, A ftone archway at the back. In foreground two cavaliers, with conical hats, point to a dog and hat lying on the ground.

Other figures to right and left. This pidure was brought from Redlynch. There were two painters of the name of Palamedes,—Paul died in 1638, and Anthony in 1680. Their real name was Stevers or Staevarts. Anthony was the elder of thefe brothers,

but Paul was the greater artift.

19. View in Venice . . Antonio Canaletti, (1697-1768.) View on the Grand Canal.

20. View near Naples . ' . . G. Hamilton, (d. 1797.)

^^^^ ^oqV, tower, and fhip. To right ramparts, with ' ^ C*'^'^^ It'Kj ' ' fea and ftiipping. Many figures on the bank in the foreground. "i^*^ "^ O'' This picture came from Redlynch.

21. View in Holland . . . t^^"^, RuyJdaeL (d. 1681.)

Clouds in fky. A river running in the foreground of the I "-^ pifture into the diftance, with boats and a houfe towards the left. X S' 6 A bank with willow trees, and to right a church with bell tower.

22. Holy Family . . Francefco 'Trevi/ani, (1656-1746.)

The face of the Virgin Mary is feen in profile, her figure

turned to left ; blue drapery over her fhoulders. Her arms 8 DRAWING ROOM.

are extended, and hands clafped over the Infant Chrift. St. John's

head and flioulders appear in the foreground. Jofeph's head is feen in the dark background, his eyes looking down. Upright fquare pidure.

Trevifani poflefled extraordinary talent in imitating the ftyle of the old mafters, copying the works of Correggio, Parmigiano, Paul Veronefe, &c.

23. Madonna .... Guido Reni. (1575- 1642.) Buff drefs with blue drapery. Head and eyes turned upwards. Figure turned to the left. One hand holds a book, the other

refts on her bofom. Half-length upright fquare pifture. Light from right.

24. Jacob feeding Laban's Flock Salvator Rqfa, (1614-1673.)

Rocks and trees. Light in the fky in centre of pi£lure. Jacob, and the flocks he tends, are placed at the lower part of the

pifture on left-hand fide. Laban is feated on a rock. A large ftem of a tree towards the right, and water in centre. A very large long pifture, formerly at Redlynch.

This very fine pidlure is in the favourite ftyle of the mafter, who was fond of depidling wild defolate fcenes, fuch as gloomy defiles and rocky precipices.

25. Cupid asleep . . Bartolommeo Schedone. (1560-1615.)

Cupid is recumbent on white drapery, his head to right, and a ^' fmall red quiver lies befide him; dark background. Small oblong picture, 12J x 10 inches.

26. Petrarch and Laura . Salvator Rqfa, (1614-1673.)

Rocks and water in foreground. Petrarch fitting on bank

to left, and Laura Handing on the right looking at Petrarch.

27. Landscape and Cattle . ^S*. RuyJdaeL (16 16- 1670.) Bank with a church on the right. Cattle, and man riding, in the foreground. Field with cut corn in the diftance. >c3r This pidure has been alfo attributed to P. Molyn, and was formerly at Redlynch. DRAWING ROOM, 9

28. Dead Game .... 7. Weenix, (1644-1719.) Partridge, woodcock, and other birds; hunting horn, and whittle.

This pi6lure was formerly at Redlynch.

John Weenix was the Ton of J. Battifta Weenix, and was inftrudled in the art of painting by his father. Born at

Amfterdam, 1644. His talents were lefs univerfal than his

father s, who greatly excelled in all branches of art ; but in the

reprefentation of dead game and hunting pieces, he is faid

to have furpaffed every artift of his country. J. Battifta Weenix was the mafter alfo of his nephew, Melchior de Hondecooter, born 1636, who was a moft diftinguilhed painter.

SQUARE DRAWING ROOM.

No. 29. Fifteen Miniatures in a Case.

TEPHEN FOX, firft Earl of Ilchefter, b. 1704, d. 1776.

Mrs. Strangways Horner, b. 1690, d. 1758.

Mary Theresa, firft wifeof the fecond Earl of Ilchefter, d. 1790.

A Gentleman, Louis XIV. period.

Anne, wife of Robert Cotton Trefufis, youngeft daughter of the

tenth Lord St. John. Mother of the feventeenth Baron Clinton, b. 1764.

Mrs. Strangways Horner.

Henry Thomas, fecond Earl of Ilchefter, b. 1747, d. 1802.

Lady Susan O'Brien, eldeft daughter of the firft Earl of Ilchefter, b. 1743, d. 1827.

William O'Brien, Efq., d. 1815.

Elizabeth, wife of the firft Earl of Ilchefter (.?),b. 1723, d. 1792.

Colonel Giles Strangways, b. 1615, d. 1675. S. Cooper. (1609-1672.) ;

14 S^UJRE BRAmNG ROOM.

Susanna, wife of Colonel Giles Strangways, d. 1682. S. Cooper,

Lady Harriot Acland, daughter of the firft Earl of Ilchefter, b. 1750, d. 1815.

Lady Lucy Digby ? b. 1748, d. 1787.

Stan DISH Grady, Esq., of Capercullen, co. Limerick. (The

father of Mary Therefa, firft wife of fecond Earl of Ilchefter.)

30. Thomas Strangways, Sen., Esq^ J, R. Riley. (1646-1691.) ^ Called Colonel Strangways in the parifli regifter. Born

1 643 ; was the fecond fon of Colonel Giles Strangways J 4 married Sufanna Ridout, 1674, and fucceeded to Melbury properties on the death of his elder brother John, in 1676. ^ He commanded the Red Regiment at Bridport againft the lOu' Duke of Monmouth, where his brother Wadham was flain,

< ^ f» June, 1 6 8 . Mr. Strangways added the fouth and eaft fronts to ^ ^ J. ) 5 I the houfe at Melbury, 1692, thereby greatly enlarging it, and died in 17 13. Leland and Coker fay that the older portions

> -^^ . of the houfe now exifting at Melbury, namely, the tower, weft, fouth-weft, and north-weft gables, were built by Sir Giles Strangways the elder, and that thefe portions were added to

a ftill older building, (the former refidence of Sampfords and Brunings,) which was probably removed by Mr. Thomas

Strangways in 1692. Henry Strangways (d. 1 504) married, as third wife, Katherine, daughter of Sir John Wadham, widow of William Bruning of Melbury; and his fon. Sir Giles Strangways the elder, was in pofleflion of that property about the year 1505. Sir Giles the elder alfo obtained a grant (35 Henry VIII.) of the fite of the monaftery and lands, &c., of AbbotflDury, and died in 1549.

This pifture reprefents Mr. Thomas Strangways in armour. Three-quarters length. Helmet on table. Figure turned to the right, and baton in his left hand. Upright fquare pidure. See 99,. 37. S^UJRE DRAWING ROOM,

John Riley was much noticed as a painter after the death of

Sir Peter Lely, and was confidered one of our beft artifts. He was appointed Court painter to King William III. and Queen Mary.

^' (^f^iVcw.^**^ 5^.-31. Mrs. Strangways Horner.'

Sufanna, eldeft furviving daughter of Thomas Strangways, '

fen., and fifter and co-heirefs of her brother Thomas Strang- ways, jun., born 1690, married Thomas Horner of Mells Park, Somerfet, 17 13. On the death of her brother, 1726, Mr. and Mrs. Horner fucceeded to Melbury and took the name of Strangways additionally to that of Horner, and on the

death of her younger fifter, Elizabeth, Duchefs of Hamilton,

in 1727, with whom flie had been co-heirefs, fhe fucceeded to her portion of the Strangways eftates alfo. Mrs. Strang- ways Horner died 1758.

In this pifture Mrs. Strangways Horner is drefied in a white drefs, with a blue fcarf. Pearls in her hair. Bouquet with a fmall orange and orange flowers, faftened with a pearl brooch. Pifture

in paflil.

See 29, 119, 137, 176, 204, 239, 240.

? 32. Stephen Fox, first Earl of Ilchester. ' '^rU-.

Eldeft fon of Sir Stephen Fox, Kt., by his fecond marriage, | c born at Chifwick, September 12th, 1704, and baptized in the private chapel of his father's houfe. His godmother was Mary, Countefs of Fauconberg (or Ffaulconbridge), third daughter of Oliver Cromwell, who married, 1657, Thomas Bellafyfe, fecond Vifcount, created Earl Fauconberg, 1679, and died at Chifwick, 17 13. Burnet fays of her, " A wife and worthy woman, far more fuited to have taken her father's place after his death, than either of her brothers." His godfathers were, Sir John Chardin, the Perfian traveller, who S^UJRE BRAmNG ROOM. for a few years rented Holland Houfe, and Edward Nicholas, Efq., fon of Sir Edward Nicholas, Secretary of State to

Charles II. On a vacancy for Shaftefbury, in 1726, Stephen Fox was eledled for that borough, and ferved for the fame place in the two fucceeding parliaments. In February, 1737, Frederick, Prince of Wales, having determined to lay his difpute with his father, as to the 100,000 a year, before parliament, folicited everybody for their votes, and fent the Hon. Charles Hamilton, fon of the Earl of Abercorn (No. 113), to Mr. Fox (who was his great friend), to fpeak on the fubjec5l to him, and alfo to convey to him a meflage, offering the abfolute promife of a peerage at the firft moment fuch ibould be in the Prince's power. This Mr. Fox declined, and voted with the Government. On the 22nd of February, the debate took place, and the refult was a majority of thirty votes againft the Prince, but this majority would probably have been a minority, had not forty-five of the Tory party quitted the Houfe in a body before the divifion.

In 1 74 1 he was created a peer by the title of Lord Ilchefter in Somerfetfhire, and Baron Strangways of Woods- ford Strangways in Dorfet. In 1746, by a further grant, he was created Lord Ilchefter and Stavordale, Baron of Redlynch in the county of Somerfet, and in 1756 he was created Earl of Ilchefter. He married, in 1736, EHzabeth, the only furviving child of Mr. and Mrs. Strangways Horner, who on the death of her mother, in 1758, fucceeded to the Strangways properties in Dorfet and elfewhere, and Lord Ilchefter then took the name of Strangways in addition to that of Fox. He died in 1776.

Lord Ilchefter is reprefented in this pifture in a wig, and wearing a dark brown coat without a collar. Figure turned to

right. Pidure in paftil.

See 29, 40, 85, 1 14, 252. SQUARE DRAWING ROOM. 17

33. Henry Fox, Lord Holland. ^ A • Second Ton of Sir Stephen Fox, Kt., by his fecond marriage, born for 1705. M.P. Hindon, 1735 ; Lord of the Treafury, 1743; Secretary of State and Leader of the Houfe of Commons, 1755; retired from office, 1763, when he was created Lord Holland of Foxley, county of Wilts. He married, in 1744, Carohne, eldeft daughter of the fecond

Duke of Richmond ; a marriage which took place fecretly at

the houfe of Sir C. Hanbury Williams, and gave great dif- fatisfadlion to Lady Caroline's parents, who had already declined his propofals. For fome time they refufed to fee their daughter, but after four years relented, and forgave the ftep fhe had taken. Many as were the errors of Lord

Holland's political career, in private life there was no limit to the attachment he infpired, and the happinefs of Lord and Lady

Holland's married life was great from firft to laft, their home being one of undoubted afFedlion during more than thirty years. Horace Walpole fays Lord Holland took a leafe of Holland Houfe in 1747, and gave a great ball there the fame year. In 1767 he bought the property, from which, in the mean-

while, he had taken his title. He had previoufly purchafed a refidence at Kingfgate, on the Kentifh coaft, where he pafTed much of his time during his later years, and for which place he had a great and abforbing aiFedion. There he largely

exercifed his tafte for building, always looking on that property as the future home of his beloved fon, Charles James Fox. Lady Caroline Fox was created in her own right Lady Holland of Holland in the county of Lincoln, in 1762. Henry, Lord Holland, died at Holland Houfe on the ift of July, 1774, and Lady Holland only furvived him twenty-three days.

" Lord Holland wears a wig. Dark green coat, with ornamental daify buttons. Gold brocade waillcoat. Pidure in pallil. See 40, 117, 135, 251. D

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1 8 S^UJRE DRAWING ROOM.

>4 ^AC ^ 34. Elizabeth, Countess of Ilchester. The only furviving child of Mr. and Mrs. Strangways

Horner, born 1 723. Without the confent, or even knowledge,

of her father, Mifs Strangways Horner married, on March ift, 1736, Stephen Fox (afterwards firft Earl of Ilchefter), at his houfe in Burlington Street, and by the defire of her parents the ceremony was again performed more pubhcly at the fame place, on the 22nd of the fame month. Mr. Horner, whofe politics were entirely oppofed to thofe of Lord Ilchefter,and who had been exceedingly difpleafed at his daughter's marriage, died

1 74 1, leaving his property at Mells, in Somerfetfliire, to his

brother Mr. John Horner ; but Lady Ilchefter fucceeded to all the Strangways eftates on her mother's death in 1758. Elizabeth, Lady Ilchefter, died in 1792.

This pifture, which is painted in paftil, reprefents Lady Ilchefter in a white fatin drefs, the bodice laced with pale pink. White flowers in her light brown hair. Figure turned to left. See 29, 41, 87, 184, 240, 253.

35. "Little Girl with Muff." i k-^ .jUX- Cr-f.. Theophila Palmer, niece of Sir Jofhua Reynolds.

The original of this pidure is in poflefTion of the Marquis of Lanfdowne.

Mrs. Thomas Strangways, Sen. J. Riley, (i 646-1 691.) Sufanna, daughter of John Ridout, Efq., born about 1660,

married Mr. Thomas Strangways, 1 674. After her hufband's death, in 17 13, fhe lived at Milton, near Bruton, in Somerfet- fhire, where there was an old manor houfe belonging to the

Strangways, fome portions of which ftill form part of a farm- houfe, and there fhe died in 17 18.

Mrs. Strangways wears a brown drefs, with a blue fcarf fleeves open, fattened with jewels. Figure turned towards the

left. See 100, 137, 149, 197, 216. S^UJRE DRJfFING ROOM.

37. Lady Hervey (Molly Lepell) Allan Ramjay, (1709-1784.) Mary, daughter of Brigadier-General Nicholas Lepell, maid of honour to Caroline, Princefs of Wales, married, 1720,

John, fon of the firft Earl of Briftol, who, on the death of his elder brother, 1723, became Lord Hervey, and was called to the Upper Houfe as Lord Hervey of Ickworth, in 1733. Lady Hervey died 1768.

Dreffed in a pale red filk cloak edged with fur. Small lace cap tied over the ears with black lace. See 106. Allan Ramfay was born in Edinburgh. He was the fon of the author of " The Gentle Shepherd,'' and through the influence

of Lord Bute was appointed Court painter to George III., and painted various portraits of him and alfo of Queen Charlotte.

38. Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia . . F, Zucchero. (b. 1543.)

Daughter of James I. by Anne of Denmark, born in 1596,

married 14th February, 16 13, Frederick, fifth Duke of Bavaria, Eledlor Palatine of the Rhine, who had made himfelf accept-

able to James I. by his ftrong adherence to the Protefl:ant faith. For many years Elizabeth and her hufband lived at Heidelberg, improving their home and doing good to all around them. Unfortunately for themfelves, in 16 19 they accepted the fovereignty of the kingdom of Bohemia, and were crowned King and Queen of that kingdom. After the battle of Prague, 9th Nov., 1620, in which they were defeated, they

were obliged to fly, and took refuge firfl: at Breflau, and afterwards in Holland. Ini 63 2 the Eledlor died. His widow then refided for fome time at the Hague, educating her children. She had many devoted friends, among whom may be named Chrifl:ian, Duke of Brunfwick, Sir Henry Wotton, and above

all her conftant and devoted friend, William, firfl: Earl of Craven. Of his chivalrous devotion flie had long been the objed, and had from her grace and beauty won the appellation of " The S^UJRE DRAmNG ROOM,

Queen of Hearts." On her brother Charles II. being reftored to the Englifh throne, he invited her to return to England, and (he then refided at Drury Houfe, which belonged to Lord

Craven. This houfe flood as late as 1 7 94, and was furrounded by a beautiful garden. Elizabeth afterwards refided at Leicefler Houfe, but her heahh foon gave way, and fhe died on 13th February, 1662, leaving her books and pidlures to

Lord Craven, which colle6tion is flill preferved at Combe Abbey, She was buried in Weflminfter Abbey. Ehzabeth,

Queen of Bohemia, left feveral children, amongfl whom was Prince Rupert, died 1682. He, and his brother Prince Maurice, who was fhipwrecked in 1654, both greatly diftinguifhed themfelves fighting in the caufe of their uncle,

Charles I. The Princefs Sophia, her youngefl daughter, born 1630, married 1658, Ernefl Auguflus, Eledor of

Hanover, and was the mother of King George I., and thus the dired anceflrefs of the Queen.

In this pifture the Queen of Bohemia wears a fcarlet drefs

with fcarlet bodice ]aced down the front ; broad ftripes of dark fhade in front of the fkirt, and hoops. Long thin gauze veil,

edged with white lace, falls from her head around her, and is

fattened with a bow ; cheftnut hair ; feal hanging with blue

ribbon to right wrift ; a ring with coronet on third finger of left

hand ; white fatin clofe-fitting fleeves ; pear-lhaped pearl hanging from ear. Figure turned to left.

This pi6lure came from Redlynch, 1857. Horace Walpole, in his "Anecdotes of Painting," gives 16 16 as the date of Zucchero's death, as alfo does Cunningham—other authorities fay he died in 1609.

Cardinal Alberoni . J, Juftin Preijler. (b. 1698.) Cardinal Alberoni, born in the Duchy of Parma, 1664, was

created a cardinal in 17 17, and was the: able and powerful minifler of Philip V. of Spain, from whofe councils, however, he had been difmifTed before 1752, the year of his death. —

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^ 40. A Group, 1738 . . ^ . JV. Hogarth, (1697-1764.)

The perfons reprefented in this pidure are, in the firft

place : Charles^ fecond Duke of Marlborough, Lord of the Bed-

chamber. In red, with ribbon and ftar of the Order of the

Garter. See 201.

2nd. Stephen Fox, afterwards created Earl of Ilchefter, in

green, tipping Mr. Villemain into the water with his ftick.

The latter is reprefented ftanding on a chair fpying through

a telefcope at a church on a diftant hill, hoping for prefer-

ment. See 29, 32, 85, 114, 252.

4th. Henry Fox, afterwards firft Lord Holland, with a plan in his hand, he being at that time at the Board of

Works. See 33, 117, 135, 251.

5th. Lord Hervey, in grey, and wearing his key of office as Vice-Chamberlain. See 141. 6th. Right Hon. Thomas Winnington, in brown. (A Lord of the Treafury.) See 147.

41. Elizabeth, first Countess of Ilchester. Born 1723, married 1736, died November, 1792.

fubfequent to her hufband's death, f)(\^ , This piilure was taken w^. Ilchefter is dreffed in black, with a canary bird on her 1^ tc»r2| ^^^>' ^^^^^^ I her Ihoulder ; white muflin fleeves and collar ; a birdcage by I 5r'0>C^O I ^ ^ ^^jg^ Figure turned to left, her dark brown eyes look towards A^' K^f- fpedator.

\+Y\A-^ See 29, 34, 87, 184, 240, 253.

42. Lady Susan O'Brien.

The eldeft daughter of Stephen, firft Earl of Ilchefter,

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P> 47. The Lord Percy. {^^/^ I>V|t^

ENRY PERCY/econdfonofHenry, ninth Earl of Northumberland, and younger brother of Algernon, tenth Earl. On the breaking out of the RebelUon, 1641, he was M after-General of Ordnance for Charles I., and was created, 1643, Baron Percy of Alnwick. He was a zealous and faithful

loyalift, endeavoured to fave the life of Strafford, and is faid to have been inftrumental in the converfion of Hyde to royaUft opinions. Lord Percy was not, however, popular with the Court party, and was deprived of his office in 1644. He neverthelefs remained with his Majefty, and before the end of the war, ruined Effex's army in the Weft, and obliged him to make his efcape into Plymouth. Hyde did not like him, as paffages in his writings unmiftakably indicate, and his unpopularity continued even after the death of Charles L, when minor differences fhould have been permitted to flumber. Prince Rupert efpecially was his enemy, but we know far too little of the inner life of thefe times to

fee the true caufe of fuch feelings. It is probable that he fuffered in the eftimation of thofe with whom he aded, on account of the moderation of his views, and from the fad that his brother, the Earl of Northumberland, favoured the 26 DINING ROOM.

Parliamentary interefts. In 1648, Lord Percy was Mafter of the Horfe to the Prince of Wales; and, after the death of the King, was made Lord Chamberlain of the Houfehold to Charles IL, and made his efcape with him to Paris, after the battle of Worcefter, 1651. Lord Percy died, unmarried, at Paris in April, 1659, when his Barony became extind.

Lord Percy is dreffed in a black coat flafhed with white, his right arm acrofs his breaft fliowing a white fleeve with embroidered cufF and collar. Long dark blue, or black, cloak.

Left hand refts on a baton. Lord Percy's figure is tarned to the

right, but he looks to the left.

48. Queen Elizabeth's Progress . Marc Garrard, (1561-1635.) Horace Walpole fays, in his life of Vertue, that in 1737 Lord Digby "from tradition" believed a pidure in his

V ' pofleffion, fimilar in fubjedl, which was then at Colefhill, to ""^'^ reprefent Queen Elizabeth's progrefs to St. PauFs in 1588, to return thanks for the deftrudion of the Armada, and he was much difpleafed with Vertue (who was taken to Colefhill by Lord Oxford to fee this pidure) determining the fubjed to reprefent Queen Elizabeth going in ftate to vifit Lord Hunfdon in Hertfordfhire, i8th September, 1571, but thus thefe pidures have fince been called. In 1866, Mr. Digby's

pidure was fent from Sherborne Caftle, where it now is, to

the firft fpecial exhibition of National Portraits at South Kenfington, and Mr. Scharf, Diredor of the National Portrait Gallery, has faid that the fubjed intended to be

reprefented, in his opinion, is Queen EHzabeth going to Blackfriars, 1600, to do honour to the marriage of Lord

Herbert (afterwards firft Marquis of Worcefter) to Anne,

daughter of John, Lord Ruftell. There is a flight variation in the drawing of Lord Ilchefter's pidure and Mr. Digby's, inafmuch as inftead of the Queen's hand being feen as in the

former, in the Sherborne pidure it pafles behind the ftomacher DINING ROOM. 27 of the Queen s drefs, is and not reprefented at all ; alfo in the latter pidure the lady following the Queen has no feet painted. The prints pubHfhed 1742, by Vertue, refemble Lord Ilchefter's pidure in both thefe particulars. Both pidures were called by Marc Garrard, but Mr. Scharf, who publifhed a paper in the Archaeological Journal in 1866, the year Mr. Digby's pidure was exhibited, exprefTes his opinion therein, that the ftyle of painting, from its carefulnefs blended with elaborate finifh, is more like the work of a fkilful hand not ufually in the habit of working in oils," and attributes rather this pidlure to Ifaac Oliver (1556-16 17), or Olivier, as he ufually figned himfelf A water-colour drawing of this fubjed was made by Vertue for Lord Oxford, and after his death fold in the fale of his pidlures, 174 1-2, to Mr.

Rudge for ^s,^ and it would be interefting to trace this pi6ture if extant. A few years fince the Rev. Thomas Livefay, Redor of Sale, near Manchefter, purchafed from a bookfeller at Briftol a fmall oil pidure of the fame fubjed

(2oi inches x 14I), and this pidure had been bought by him at a fale of Captain Little's effeds at Bath, having been an heirloom in that family and come into their poffeffion through fome member of the Throckmorton family. This pidure entirely correfponds with Lord Ilchefter's in outline, but is more vivid in the general colouring, efpecially in the drefles of the bearers of the Queen s ledica, and in Queen

Elizabeth's own drefs, which is of brilliant crimfon. How and when Lord Ilchefter firft became pofTefled of his pidure is not known. Writing in the cover of the account by Vertue of " The vifit to Hunfdon Houfe, by Marc Garrard,'* pubhftied 1742, the firft Lord Ilchefter writes, " Account of my pidure and fmall prints at Redlynch, 1742." In a fmall copper plate, 1788, pubhfhed in the firft edition of Nichols* " Progreftes," are added upper portions of the buildings, &c., 28 JOURNAL ROOM.

during the laft forty years of his life, but a lift would in- clude, with but few exceptions, every man of note during that period. He was buried near Ampthill, in Bedfordfhire,

which had been left him by his uncle, Lord OfTory, in iBiB. Three children furvived him, General Charles Fox, born in 17965 Henry Edward, who fucceeded him in the title, and Mary Elizabeth, who married Thomas, Lord Lilford. Lady Holland died in 1845.

refting Three-quarter length ; ftanding with his left hand on a chair. Facing the fpedator, eyes turned to the right. Dark blue coat, white and red waiftcoat; white neckcloth.

See 1 18, 122,229, ^72? 274, Min. I. 3, Min.VIII. 9.

This pidlure was painted at Florence early in 1796 by Francois Xavier Fabre, a Frenchman, who fettled in Rome and afterwards in Florence. He became very intimate with Louife de Stolberg, Countefs of Albany, the widow of Prince Charles Edward; and poffibly married her.

31. George, Earl Macartney, 1800. 'T. Phillips, (1770- 1845.) George, only fon of George Macartney, Efq., of Liflanoure, CO. Antrim, was born in 1737. He was an intimate friend and companion of Stephen Fox, afterwards fecond Lord Holland, and travelled with him on the Continent. He became a valued friend of the family; and many of his letters are preferved at Holland Houfe. He was fent to St. Peterfburg as Envoy in 1764, and was knighted on his return in 1767. He married during the following year Lady Jane Stuart, daughter of John, Earl of Bute. He held the pofts of Chief Secretary for Ireland, 1767; Governor of the Caribbee Iflands, 1775; Governor of Madras, 1780-5; and on refigning this pod: was offered the Governor-Generalfhip of India, which he refufed. He was given a peerage in 1776, and after his return from China, whither he was fent as Ambaflador- Extraordinary JOURNAL ROOM. 29

in 1792, was raifed to an Earldom. He was Governor of the Cape of Good Hope 1797-99, and dying without children in 1806 his honours became extindt.

To the waift. Three-quarter face to the left. Light blue coat with dark blue collar. Wearing ribbon and star of the Bath.

This pidure is figned, and dated 1 800.

Right Hon. George TiERNETi' . . After Lemuel Abbott.

George, fon of Thomas Tierney, a wealthy merchant, was born in 1761. He entered Parliament in 1788, and foon proved his abilities in the ranks of the Oppofition, efpecially on queftions of finance. He refufed to fecede with Fox's party in 1798, though he was often at Holland Houfe at this time, being a devoted admirer of Lady Holland. After an angry difcuflion with Pitt in May of that year, he fought a duel with him on Wimbledon Common, but both efcaped injury. He accepted the poft of Treafurer of the Navy from Adding- ton in 1802, and was Prefident of the Board of Trade 1806-7; andMafter of the Mint 1827-28. He died fuddenly in 1830, leaving a large family by his wife, Mifs Miller of Stapleton, whom he married in 1789.

To the waift. Three-quarter face, turned to the left. Black coat, yellow waiftcoat. See 273. A copy of a pidture by Lemuel Abbott, which was engraved in 1798 by W. Nutter.

George, fifth Earl of Essex. Eldeft fon of William Anne, fourth Earl of EfTex, by Frances, daughter of Sir Charles Hanbury Williams. He was born in 1757, and fucceeded to the titles on his father's death in 1799. He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Hereford; ;

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4. La^y Rujfell, mother of the bride, right hand of pidure.

5. The bald-headed nobleman in front, neareft fpedlator, is Edward, fourth Earl of Worceftevy father of bridegroom, holding a pair of gloves, probably to prefent either to the Queen or the bride.

6. Lord Herbert, bridegroom, afterwards firft Marquis of Worcefter-

His right hand is on the pole of the Ledlica, left hand indicates his bride, following.

7. The aged nobleman to left, looking back, is Lord High Admiral, Charles, Earl of Nottingham, K.G., 1575. 8. Next to him, his brother-in-law, George Carey, fecond Lord Hunf- don, bearing the white wand as Lord Chamberlain, K.G., 1597. 9. Henry Brooke, fixth Lord Cobham, Warden of Cinque Ports, K.G.,

1 599, walks in front of the Queen bearing the Sword of State. (Son-in-law of the Earl of Nottingham.) 10. George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland, K.G,, 1592, between Lord Hunfdon and Lord Cobham. 11. The Earl of Rutland (Roger Manners), left-hand bearer of pole, next Lord Cobham.

1 2. Lord Herbert of Cardiffe (Earl of Pembroke's fon), face in profile. 13. On extreme left (in advance of the Earl of Nottingham), Thomas,

firft Lord Howard of Walden, afterwards Earl of Suffolk and

Conftable of the Tower, K.G., 1 597. 14. The gaily drefTed figure between the bridegroom and his father may not improbably be Sir Walter Raleigh, or poffibly, Thomas, fecond fon of the Earl of Worcefter, brother of the bridegroom, or Edward, third Earl of Bedford, uncle of the bride, who died 1627.

49- King Charles I . Vandycky Sir Anthony. (1599-1641.)

The fecond fon of James I. by Queen Anne of Denmark

fucceeded to the throne, 1625 ; married Henrietta Maria,

youngeft daughter of Henry IV. of France, 1625 ; beheaded

1 ; buried in the tomb of Henry VIII. , St. George's Cirs 649 Chapel, Windfor.

Figure turned to right. This pifture was brought from Redlynch in 1793. In armour. Helmet and crown in background. Baton in the right hand.

^ 50. Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon. 1^- Mary Beale, (163 2-1 697.) Lord High Chancellor of England; born at Dinton in DINING ROOM, 31

Wilts, 1608; M.P. 1640. At firft he joined the moderate popular party, but during the Civil Wars attached himfelf faithfully to the Royal caufe, and greatly contributed to the Reftoration. In his judicial capacity he was irreproachable, but he fubfequently became unpopular and was removed from his high offices. He then went into retirement, and died at Rouen in 1674. In 1660, his daughter. Lady Anne Hyde, married the Duke of York, who afterwards became

James II., and was the mother of Mary, born 1662, wife of William III., and alfo of Queen Anne, born 1665.

Figure turned to left. Wears a loofe robe, with white full fleeve. Standing, he holds a roll of parchment in his hand.

51. Mary E. A., Countess of Ilchester. Hon. H. Graves. (1818-1882.)

With a little dog, " Jack," in her arms. Daughter of the Earl of Dartrey; married, 1872, Henry Edward, fifth Earl of Ilchefter.

Wears a pale pink filk drefs trimmed with lace, and looks to right. Landscape in background. See No. 108.

52. King Edward VL . . Hans Holbein. (1498-1554.) i \ Son of King Henry VIII. by Jane Seymour; born at his father, when Hampton Court, 1537 ; fucceeded 1547, only ten years of age, and was crowned by Cranmer, Arch- bifhop of Canterbury, in Weftminfter Abbey, February, in Weft- 1547; died at Greenwich, 1553, and was buried minfter Abbey.

Wears robes of crimfon velvet, trimmed with miniver. Black velvet cap, with jewels and a black feather. Clofe white fleeves. Figure turned to left. Carries fceptre in right hand. 32 DINING ROOM.

53. Henry Edward, fifth Earl of Ilchester; and "Ada," 1875 .... Hon. H. Graves. (1818-1882.) Lord Ilchefter married Lady Mary Dawfon, only daughter of the Earl of Dartrey, February, 1872.

In fhooting coat, with yellow retriever. Scotch fcenery in the background. See No. 341.

54. George Monck, Duke of Albemarle, K.G. ' Mrs. Beak. (1632-1697.)

Born 1608, in Devonftiire ; fon of Sir Thomas Monck, ^^^i Kt. In 1629 he entered an Englilh regiment in Holland,

. and thus ftudied the art of war. In 1639 he commanded J ^ I the artillery in Charles I.'s ill-fated expedition in Scotland,

and difplayed much fkill. In his efforts to relieve Sandwich he was taken prifoner by the Roundheads, and was kept in

captivity for two years. For fome time he declined all offers of fervice which were made to him by Oliver Cromwell, who had great admiration for him as a foldier. Later, however, he accepted a command in Ireland. The part he took in the

Reftoration is well known, and Charles II. then created him Baron Monck, Earl of Torrington, and Duke of Albemarle, K.G. He died 1676, and was buried in Weftminfter Abbey,

King Charles II. attending the funeral. (Sir Stephen Fox bore the Royal Standard on this occafion.) He left a large

fortune to his furviving fon, who quickly fpent it.

» Three-quarter length figure, turned to left. He wears armour. His left hand refts on the handle of his fword. In his right hand, a baton. Long, dark, curling hair. Wears the Jewel of the Order of the Garter.

Mary Beale was one of the beft female artifts of the feventeenth century. She was the daughter of a clergyman of the name of Cradock, and ftudied painting under Sir Peter Lely, many of whofe works fhe copied, alfo of Vandyck's, She ;

DINING ROOM. 33 married Charles Beale, whofe pocket-books, containing notes on fubjeds of art and artifts, have thrown much light on the artifts of that period and their works. Mary Beale died 1697, and was buried in St. Jameses Church. .^b v

Sir 55. Robert Long, Bart. . Sir Peter Lely. (1617-1680.) Youngeft fon of Sir Walter Long, Kt., of Wraxall and Draycot, co. Wilts, and Catherine Thynne, his fecond wife;

fecretary to Charles II. in his exile ; at his reftoration made Auditor of the Exchequer, and fworn of the Privy Council M.P. for Tewkefbury, 1658, and created a Baronet, 1662; died, unmarried, 1673, and was buried in Weftminfter Abbey. His nephew James, fon of his eldeft brother, Walter, fucceeded to the baronetcy, which had been granted with fuch remainder, alfo to a property at Athelhampton, co. Dorfet, which had formerly belonged to the Martins, but had been bought by Sir Robert Long from Sir Ralph Bankes, of Kingfton Hall, with one fhare of the beautiful old houfe which, tradition fays, was in remote times a quadrangular building, and the palace of King Athelftan. The northern wing of the houfe, now ftanding (repaired by Sir Robert Long), Hutchins confiders to have been built by Sir Nicholas Martin (died 1596), who had no fon, and by whofe will the houfe as well as lands were divided into four equal portions, for daughters, married or unmarried. The Athelhampton property remained in the Long family 200 years, and was inherited by Catherine Long, fifter and

heirefs of the laft Sir James Tylney Long, who died a minor in 1805. She married the Hon. William Wellefley Pole,

and their fon, the fifth Earl of Mornington, fold it fome years

fince to Mr. George J. Wood, who efFedted an exchange with Mr. Floyer as to one portion of the houfe (originally the fhare of Sir Nicholas' fourth daughter Anne), and his F DINING ROOM, daughter is now the pofleflbr of all four portions of the houfe. The fifth Earl of Mornington, born 1813, died

1 863, leaving Draycot, and fuch Long properties as remained to him, to his coufin. Earl Cowley.

Sir Robert Long, Bart., was firft coufin to Sir John Strangways, whofe father, John Strangways (died 1593), married Dorothy, daughter of Sir John Thynne, "the Builder," by his fecond marriage with the daughter of Sir William Wroughton, of Broadhinton, Wilts. Sir Robert

Long's mother was Catherine Thynne, fifter of Dorothy. This lady made herfelf notorious in the Long family by her connedlion with the well-known " Legend of the White Hand." Sir Walter Long, Kt., of Wraxhall and Draycot, firft married Mary, daughter of Sir W. Packington of Weftwood, Worcefter, and by her he had one fon, John. He married, fecondly, Catherine Thynne, who, being anxious that her children Ibould inherit their father's property, rather than his fon by the firft marriage, with the connivance of her brother. Sir Egrimond Thynne, who was an eminent lawyer, fhe caufed the draft of a new will to be prepared, which was given by Sir Egrimond to a clerk to engrofs, with the promife of a large fum of money if the work fhould be completed by the early morning, and ftridt fecrecy maintained. This clerk fitting up late in the night to do his bidding, there fuddenly appeared a fhadow over the parchment on which he was writing, and he beheld a delicate white hand, clearly that of a woman, interpofed between the light and the parchment, which inftantly faded away. He thought this vifion a mere fancy, and refumed his work. The clock ftruck one, and again the fame fhadow appeared, and he beheld the fame pale hand. This vifion appearing a third time, he felt no doubt the hand was that of the firft Lady Long, who was thus watching the interefts of her fon. The clerk fled from the DINING ROOM,

room and told Sir Egrimond he would have nothing more to do with the work. Somebody more complaifant was quickly found, and the deed was very fpeedily engrofled, figned, and fealed. Sir Walter Long was then at Bath, where he foon after died. The White Hand " had, however, (hown

itfelf to fome purpofe. The clerk's marvellous tale was fpread abroad, and the near relations and truftees of Mary,

the firft Lady Long, commenced a fuit againft the intended heir. The refult was a compromife, and the eldeft fon, John, fucceeded to Wraxall, and his half brother was allowed to retain Draycot. Hence the divifion of thefe properties.

In this pidure Sir Robert Long wears a wig, and a loofe

brown filk robe, with white under-fleeves.

(i579-i^57-) 56. Wolf AND Dogs . . . F, Snyders, ^"^^^^ This pidure was brought from Redlynch, 1793.

Beak, 57. Prince Rupert . . Mary (1632-1697.) Third fon of the Eledlor Palatine and Elizabeth, the after daughter of James I., was born in 16 19, about a month his father and mother had been crowned King and Queen of Bohemia. Both he and his brother, Prince Maurice, were very early in Hfe fent over to England, and diftinguifhed themfelves during the Civil Wars fighting in the Stuart

pro- ^ caufe, holding high military pofitions. Prince Rupert's 1 caufe at verbial rafhnefs was, however, fatal to the Royal Marfton Moor, 1645, and his fubfequent furrender at ferved in the Briftol eftranged him from the king. Later, he mezzotint navy, and to him we are indebted for the art of his engraving. He died in 1682, and was buried near mother, in Henry VII.'s Chapel in Weftminfter Abbey. 36 DINING ROOM.

Prince Rupert wears a bufF jacket, with fteel corflet. Blue ribbon of the Order of the Garter. Curly black flowing hair, or

wig. A baton in his hand. In the background there is a diftant view of a church and a ruined tower.

Lady Louifa Cotes has a fimilar pi6lure at Pitchford Hall, Shrewfbury.

LORD ILCHESTER'S MORNING ROOM.

58, BOAR Scott.

59. Henry Stephen, third Earl of II-

CHESTER . . LinnelL (1792-1882.)

Born, 1787; married, in 18 12, Caroline Leonora, fecond daughter of the Right Rev. the Lord George

Murray, Bifhop of St. David's. She died 18 19. Lord Ilchefter died January, 1858.

This pifture was painted about 1842, and reprefents Lord

Ilchefter fitting down, a cloak falls loofely over his fhoulder.

He looks towards the left. See No. 180.

J. Linnell painted in oil as early as 1 804, and was a pupil of Varley's. During the earlier portion of his career as an

artifl: he principally painted portraits, but later, fubjed landfcapes much occupied his time. He died in January, 1882, at Redhill, aged ninety.

60. James, Duke of Monmouth, K.G. W. Wissing, (1656- 1687.)

Son of Charles II. and Lucy Walters ; born at Rotterdam, 1649. created Duke of Monmouth and Knight of the Garter in 1663, and Mafter of the Horfe in 1665. In 40 LORD ILCHESTER'S MORNING ROOM,

the fame year he married Anne, fecond daughter, but eventual heirefs of Francis, fecond Earl of Buccleugh, and then afTumed the name of Scott, and he and his duchefs were created Duke and Duchefs of Buccleugh, 1673. He was alfo made Lord Great Chamberlain, and High Admiral of Scotland. He ferved in the French army in 1673, and defeated the Covenanters at Bothwell Bridge, 1678. He was in banifhment at the time of Charles II/s death, 1685. On the 4th of June that year, he landed at Lyme, and thus commenced his premature and brief rebelHon. On the 14th of the fame month he made an attack on Bridport, but retreated from thence the following day, after fome lofTes on both fides, and fubfequently marched with his followers to Taunton. The decifive battle of Sedgmoor was fought on Sunday, July 6th. He was taken prifoner, conveyed to London, and beheaded on Tower Hill on the 15th of July, 1685.

Small oval pidure brought from Redlynch in 1857. Seen to

the waift ; he wears a bufF coat and corflet. His figure is turned

to the left, and he has very dark brown hair, hanging in curls to his fhoulders. He wears the ribbon of the Garter and a hand- fome lace cravat.

Wifling was much employed by Sir Peter Lely, and after his death painted many royal perfonages, efpecially the Duke of Monmouth, of whom he made feveral portraits.

61. Mary Theresa, Wife of second Earl of Ilchester. 'Thomas Beach, (1738-1806.)

Daughter of Standifh Grady, Efq., of Capercullen, County of Limerick; married, 1772; died, 1790.

DrelTed in a bulF drefs with ermine trimming. Pearls and flowers in her hair. The picture was painted in 1778, and was given to Lord Ilchefter by the Earl of Limerick, as was the com- LORD ILCHESTER'S MORNING ROOM.

panion pi6lure of Henry Thomas, fecond Earl of Ilchefter (No. 64). See 29, 196.

Thomas Beach was born at Milton Abbas in Dorfetfhire, and became a pupil of Sir Jofhua Reynolds. He died at Dorchefter.

Sir Stephen Fox, Kt. Kneller, (i , -^-JQxidfrey 648-1723.)

Born at Farley in Wiltfhire, in 1627. When only fifteen, he had employment under Algernon, tenth Earl of Northum- berland, who by marriage with the daughter and heirefs of Theophilus, Earl of Suffolk (d. 1640), became the pofleffor of Northumberland Houfe in the Strand, then called Suffolk Houfe. The Earl of Northumberland, notwithftanding his

defedion from his Majefty^s fervice, filled the greatefl and moffc important pofts about the King, but Sir Stephen Fox,

before the death of Charles I. (when aged twenty-one), had given up his employment with him, and followed the fortunes of his brother. Lord Percy (see 47), who was conflant in his attachment and fidelity to the Houfe of Stuart. We hear of him on the 30th of January, 1649, as being one of the

attendants of Charles I. on the fcaffold, and he ever afterwards obferved the recurrence of that day, as his children record, by hanging the walls of his houfe with black, and making it a

day of failing. (There are ftill at Melbury a pair of gold

buckles which belonged to Charles I., probably given to Sir Stephen Fox as a memorial of his fad death.) After the battle of Worceiler, in 1651, he followed the fortunes of Charles II. abroad, and Lord Clarendon perfuaded his Majefty to appoint him Comptroller of his Houfehold and Keeper of his Privy Purfe (Lord Percy being at that time Lord Chamberlain),

which offices he difcharged with honefly, difcretion, and ability. ;

LORD ILCHESTER'S MORNING ROOM,

In confideration of his good and faithful fervices, His Majefty prefented him in 1654, at Spa, with a Bafon and ewer of gold plate, which had belonged to King Charles I., and in 1658 he granted him an honourable augmentation to his coat of arms namely, in a canton az., a Fleur de lis or. He was the firft perfon to announce to his royal mafter the death of the Pro- tedor, and after the Reftoration he was conftituted Paymafter of the Forces in England, and firft Clerk of the Green Cloth. The juft profits of thefe offices enabled him to perform many afts of munificence and charity. Sir Stephen Fox was knighted in 1665, and in 1679 became one of the

Lords of the Treafury, continuing in that office and in all royal favour till the Revolution, when he concurred in voting the throne of James II. vacant, owing to his being a Roman

Catholic. In 1 6 8 9 he was again a Lord Commiffioner of the

Treafury, and fo remained till 1701, when he retired from bufinefs. In 1692, when James II. prepared to invade England with a large army, he fent over a formal declaration, promifing pardon to all who fhould return to his allegiance, excepting certain named peers, and Sir Stephen Fox. In the year 1682 Sir Stephen built and endowed a hofpital at Farley, with fmall homes placed on each fide of the dwelhng for the warden, for fix aged men, and fix women ; and in 1690 a church he had hkewife built at Farley was confe- crated by Bifiiop Burnet, to take the place of the '^antient ruinated chappell" which ftood on another fite.

Sir Stephen Fox reprefented Salifbury in Charles II.'s firft parliament, alfo in 1685, and again later in 1713. In 1691, and again in 1694, he was elected for Weftminfter; and in 1702, by Queen Anne's fpecial defire, he led her in her coronation proceffion.

The date of his firft marriage with EHzabeth Whittle (No.

242) is not very certain, but it muft have taken place about LORD ILCHESTER'S MORNING ROOM.

the middle of the feventeenth century, and by her he had feven fons and three daughters, many of whom died at a very early age, and none furvived him excepting Jane, Countefs of Northampton (No. ii6). Lady Fox died in 1696, and Sir

Stephen married fecondly, 1 703, Chriftian Hope (No. 243), by whom he left two fons, Stephen Fox, afterwards firft Earl of

Ilchefter, and Henry, afterwards firft Lord Holland, alfo one daughter, Charlotte, who married the Hon. Edward, fon of WiHiam, fifth Lord Digby of Geafhill.

Sir Stephen Fox died September 23rd, 17 1 6, in his ninetieth year, at a houfe he had built at Chifwick on property bought from the Hungerfords, and according to Pepys, he had much beautified, efpecially by a painting on the ftaircafe by Verrio, an Italian artift (1634- 1707). This houfe is not

exifting, and the ground on which it was built, and gardens,

are now abforbed in the Duke of Devonfhire s property there. Sir Stephen Fox was buried in the church at Farley. ^

This pidlure reprefents Sir Stephen Fox, with a letter in his right hand. Three-quarter length. In a brown filk robe, lined with grey. A large wig with flowing curls. He looks to left. See 73, 241, 350.

There is an infcription on the pidure as follows : — Sir Stephen Fox, Kt., of Farley, Co. of Wilts, one of the Com- miffioners of Treafury to King Charles IL, was folely employed by his Majefty to provide for eredling an Hofpitall at Chelfea for fuperannuated and decay 'd foldiers of his Guards and Land Forces, of which he had been paymafter 20 years—who gave the ground and materialls thereon in 12' in the the year 168 1, and did refign up the 3rd part of pound as a fund towards building and fupporting that Royal Hofpitall." " This pidure painted in the 7 5th year of his 1." age 1 70 LORD ILCHESTER'S MORNING ROOM.

There is a good engraving of this portrait at Melbury, in reverfe, however, of the pidlure.

J. Baker, pinxt. J. Smith, ex. (d. 1720). J. Simon, fecit (1675-1755). S'by^^o

The Hon. John Cornwallis.

Fourth fon of Charles, third Lord Cornwalhs, and Ehza- beth, eldeft daughter of Sir Stephen Fox, died 1697, aged 18.

Small oval pifture, formerly at Redlynch. DrefTed in a grey- green coat, with blue fcarf or cloak, fattened on fhoulder.

Figure turned to left.

Henry Thomas, second Earl of Ilchester. Thomas Beach. (173 8- 1806.)

Born 1747; married, 1772, Mary Therefa, daughter of Standilh Grady, Esq., of Capercullen, co. of Limerick, who died at Redlynch, 1790. Sir Stephen Fox bought Redlynch, 1670, from the Fitzjames family, and built a new houfe there.

The firft, and the fecond Lord Ilchefter, refided constantly

till 1792, at Redlynch, but on the death of Elizabeth, widow

of the firft Earl of Ilchefter, her fon removed to Melbury,

and Redlynch has been little inhabited fince. Henry Thomas, Lord Ilchefter, married fecondly, in 1794, Maria, the third daughter of the Hon. William Digby, Dean of Durham,

and died in 1 802. Lady Ilchefter died 1 842. 0

In a green coat. Black and red ftriped veil. Light hair

bruflied off his forehead. He looks to left.

See 29, 89, 178, 195. Geese ...... Scotf,

Three Ships ...... Whitcombe,

Reprefenting the taking of Bandaniera by Sir C. Cole,

Auguft 9th, 1 809. This fmall pidlure was given to Henry Stephen, Lord Ilchefter, by Sir Chriftopher Cole, K.C.B. LORD ILCHESTER'S MORNING ROOM.

67. Hon. Mary Digby.

Eldeft daughter of William, fifth Lord Digby, died 1729, of fmall-pox, aged thirty-nine. There is a monument to her and to her brother Robert in Sherborne Abbey Church, on which are lines written to her memory by Pope. This

pidlure is in a panel over the fireplace.

In a white filk drefs, with a flieet of manufcript mufic in her hand. Landfcape in the background.

William, Lord Digby, was third fon of Kildare, fecond Baron Digby. On the death of John Digby, third Earl of Briftol, 1698, who was a diftant coufin, he fucceeded to the

Sherborne eftates, but not to the earldom of Briftol ; died 1752.

68. Stephen, Lord Stavordale.

1 died, unmarried, 1 . Second fon of Henry Born 8 1 7 ; 848 Stephen, third Earl of Ilchefter. (His elder brother, Henry Thomas Leopold, Lord Stavordale, born 18 16, died unmarried in 1837.)

Small water-colour portrait.

69. General (Thomas) Fox Strangways, R.A.

Killed at the battle of Inkermann, November 5th, 1854. Second fon of Hon. and Rev. Charles Strangways, Redor of Maiden Newton, and grandfon of the firft Earl of Ilchefter.

Chandler. \' 70. Lady Charlotte Fox Strangways and . Lady Louisa Fox Strangways.

Lady Charlotte, born 1784; married, 18 10, Sir Charles Lemon, Bart., of Carclew, Cornwall; died 1826. Lady Louifa, born 1785; married, 1808, Lord Henry Petty, LORD ILCHESrER'S MORNING ROOM.

afterwards third Marquefs of Lanfdowne ; died 1851 —Fourth and fifth daughters of llenry Thomas, fecond Earl of Ilchefter.

DrelTed in long white fimple dreffes without trimming. Blue fhoes tied with ribbons. They ftand hand in hand. Sea, rocks,

and Iky in tJie diftance. Lady Louifa looks to the left, and Lady Charlotte turns to the right. See 271, 272.

Poultry. ENTRANCE HALL.

— — ; —

ENTRANCE HALL.

Colonel Giles Strangways, LL.D.

Mary Beak. (163 2- 1697.)

|ON of Sir John Strangways, Kt., and Dame Grace, his wife, born 1615; he inherited the loyalty as well as the eftate of his father. Colonel of horfe in the Royal army, he had the command of a regiment in that portion which adted under Prince Maurice in the weft of England. He fhared his father's imprifonment in the Tower, 1645, and was confined in the White Tower thirty months, from

September, 1645, ^^^^ April, 1648, and in recolledlion of this event he caufed a medal to be ftruck in gold, with infcriptions

and date, 1648, in Latin. On the face is his head, and on

the reverfe the White Tower. There is alfo an engraved portrait of Colonel Giles Strangways by David Loggan, in armour, laced cravat and fmall whifkers, and thefe Jines

fubfcribed :

" The reft Fame fpeaks, and makes his virtues known, By zeal for the Church, and Loyahy to the throne The Artift in this draught doth Art excel None but himfelf can be his parallel

But if his fteel could his great mind exprefs That would appear in a much nobler drefs." H ENTRANCE HALL.

This print has become rare and of value. Colonel Giles

Strangways was Privy Councillor to Charles II. ; married Sufanna, daughter of Thomas Edwards, Efq., of Fayre

Crooch, May, 1635 ; died 1675, which time he was Knight for the Shire for Dorfet, alfo M.P. for the county.

In armour, with epaulettes and truncheon.

See 29, 109, 207.

73. Sir Stephen Fox, Kt. .... Mary Beale ? Born 1627; married Elizabeth Whittle about 1650, who dying, 1696, Sir Stephen married secondly, 1703, Chriftian

Hope, daughter of the Rev. Ffrancis Hope ; died at Chifwick, 1716. This pidure was brought from Redlynch in 1872. Horace Walpole mentions in his lives of the painters that Mary Beale painted, 1677, a portrait of Sir Stephen Fox.

See 62, 241, 350.

- pi. 74. Thomas Strangways, Jun., Esq^

Eldeft furviving fon of Thomas Strangways, Sen., born

1682, was the laft male defcendant of this branch of the Strangways family. Hutchins fays he was educated at Hart Hall, Oxford, and was a perfed gentleman, an excellent fcholar, and an ornament to the county of Dorfet. He reprefented Bridport in three parliaments, and was Knight of the Shire for Dorfet in the fourth until his death. He married Mary, daughter and heirefs of Edward Vaughan of Llan- gwydden in Montgomeryshire, in 17 10, and lived principally at Stinsford during his father's Hfe. He much repaired and beautified the old houfe there, which had previoufly fallen into decay, and which had defcended to the Strangways by the marriage of Thomas Strangways, in 1460, with Alianor EmRANCE HALL,

Talboys, co-heirefs of her coufin Humphrey StafFord, Lord Stafford of Southwick, Earl of Devon. Mr. Thomas Strangways, Jun., died 1726, without iffue, and his eftates

pafled to his two fifters. Elizabeth, Duchefs of Hamilton, dying 1729, Sufanna, wife of Thomas Horner, Efq., of Mells, Somerfet, became the fole heirefs, and took the name of Strangways additionally to that of Horner.

This pifture reprefents Mr. Thomas Strangways in a complete fuit of brown. Brown ftockings. Shoes with buckles. White cravat with long ends and taffels. He wears a wig, and has a

fword and cane in his hand. Figure turned to left. See 90, 137, 211.

Strangways, Esq. \.i 75- John :\ \ fon of Thomas Born, 1687 ; died, unmarried, 1716. Third Strangways, Sen., Efq.

Three-quarter length pifture. In red brown coat, and long waiftcoat. White buttons, and long cravat. Figure turned to

right. See 137, 203.

(on panel). . 76. Nicholas Wadham

Son of Sir John Wadham of Merefield in Somerfet, founder of Wadham College, Oxford. ^^Itatis fuae 62, a.d. i 595," fifter and co-heir, died 1609, aged feventy-feven. Joan, his married Sir Giles Strangways the younger, who died in 1562. Young. She was born 1533, and fecondly married Sir John Cathedral, Died in 1603, and was buried in the choir of Briftol figure of where was her fine tomb, reprefenting the recumbent kneeling eight children a woman, and two men in armour ; in the alfo kneeling. During fome recent reftorations made choir, and Cathedral, this tomb has been removed from the part of the only a fmall portion of it remains in another Cathedral. 52 EmRANCE HALL.

Nicholas Wadham is reprefented in this pidlure in a black drefs and high crowned hat. In his right hand a pair of gloves and handle of fword. p 77. John Strangways, Esq. Kx..€^ALt.^-~J^-

1 Eldeft Ton of Colonel Giles Strangways, born 636 ; married, 1672, Anne, daughter of the firft Lord Capel, and Elizabeth, daughter and heirefs of Sir Charles Morrifon of Cafhiobury.

(Arthur, firft Lord Capel, was fo created, Auguft 6th, 1641, and was beheaded in Old Palace Yard in March, 1649, aged 49.) Anne Capel muft have died very foon after her marriage, for, in 1 674, John Strangways married fecondly his coufin, Marie Penruddocke, daughter of Colonel John Penruddocke

(beheaded 1655 at Exeter). He died s. p. 1676.

Mr. John Strangways wears a brown filk robe in this pi6lure.

78. Sir John Strangways, Kt. (astatis 78, a.d. 1665).

Second fon of John Strangways, and Dorothy, the daughter

of Sir John Thynne, the Builder," of Longleat. Born 1 584. His elder brother Giles had married Frances, the daughter of Sir Henry Newton, of Barr Court, Gloucefterfhire, but died

s. p. 1623. Sir John married Grace, daughter of Sir George Trenchard, of Wolveton, near Dorchefter, who died 1652, and in 1653, he married fecondly, Judith, daughter of Frances Throckmorton, Efq., of Fayre Crooch, near Wadhurft, the mother of Sufanna, the wife of Colonel Giles Strangways, eldeft fon of Sir John. Before the Civil Wars he was oppofed to the Court, but changed his politics in confequence of his diflike to the violent perfecution of the Earl of Strafford, and through the later years of the war Sir John engaged himfelf, his fortune, and his interefts in the fervice of the Royal caufe,

fuffering for it by fines, imprifonment, and fequeftration. He was taken prifoner by Sir Thomas Fairfax, when Sherborne ENTRANCE HALL.

Caftle was befieged, Auguft, 1645, as were alfo his fon-in- law. Sir Lewis Dyve (Colonel and Governor of the Caftle), and his Ton, Colonel Giles Strangways. They were Tent to London by fea, brought to the bar of the Houfe of Commons, and committed to the Tower for high treafon.

There Sir John and his fon remained till 1648, when they

were liberated. Sir Lewis Dyve remained in the Tower till 1650, when he efcaped (the evening before he was to have been put to death) by leaping from a window into the Thames, at high water. In 1660, Sir John, his fon. Colonel Giles

Strangways, and his grandfon, Thomas Strangways, were all members of Parliament. Sir John died 1666.

Reprefented in this pifture fitting in an armchair. Broad- brimmed velvet hat on his head; dreffed in a long loofe coat edged with fur, and holding a letter in his hand.

There is a portrait of Sir John Strangways at Wadham College, Oxford, dated 1663, aetat. 76.

See Nos. 102, 118.

\ 79. Dorothy Wadham (on panel), "^tatis fuae 60, a.d. 1595." Daughter of Sir Wilham Petre, and wife of Nicholas

Wadham, Efq., the founder of Wadham College, Oxford ;

died 1 6 1 8, aged eighty-three.

Dreffed in black, and carrying a prayer-book in her right hand.

Xi 80. Wadham Strangways, Esq. Fourth fon of Colonel Giles Strangways; married the daughter of Arthur Radford, Efq., of Dewhfh. She died 1683. Stinsford was their home, and there they were both buried, within the rail under the chancel of Stinsford Church, where, on a grey marble ftone, may ftill be feen the arms of ENTRANCE HALL.

Strangways impaling Radford. (The Dewlifh property came to the Strangways through this marriage.) Wadham Strang- ways was flain by a party of the Duke of Monmouth's forces at Bridport, who had gone there from Lyme Regis, June 14th, 1685. The following letter from Thomas Chafin, of Chettle (who married a Penruddocke, and through the Trenchards and Frekes was therefore related to the Strang- ways), is written to his wife, dated from Mrs. Beftlands in Dorchefter.

" Monday, June 15th, 1685.

" I am very well foe far on my journey but mett with bad news here of my coufin Wadham Strangways being barbaroufly killed yefterday morning by the rebells. A younger fone of Coir. Coker's likewife killed at the fame time. Coir Coker's eldeft fone and Mr. Williams of Shittern taken prifoners. My Cos. Strangways killed as he was takeing Horfe Major ; Styles faved himfelf in a plot of Kidney Beanes; Mr. Churchill of Mufton faved himfelf, by running up into the garrett. I am going as faft as convenient I can thither. We've a great army againft them. It feems the Rogues in Bridport had communicated with them at Lyme, which was the caufe of the furprife on Cos. Strangways and the Reft.

I do not hear of any more killed, gentle or fimple of our fide, but of the rebells two or three killed, and two or three and twenty taken Prifoners. I was forced to take CoUington knowing noe other foe fitt ; therefore if you pleafe to come home you muft fend to Chettle either for Will Horner, or Will Lambert. Horner and the Colt, will draw you Home almoft as well (as fafe I am fure). I have Thomas Clements and the Gardiner well armed with me. Give my fervice to all my friends, and blefting to the bratts, and let Nancy take true love from Thos : Chafin." ENTRANCE HALL. SS

Mr. Chafin commanded a troop of horfe at the Battle of Sedgmoor, againft the Duke of Monmouth, 6th July, 1685.

Some letters from him to his wife, of which the preceding is one, were in pofTeflion of his grandfon. Rev. W. Chafin, and he permitted Mr. Hutchins to infert them in his Hiftory.

Small oval pi61ure.

81. Susanna, wife of Colonel Giles Strangways.

Mrs. Strangways, born 16 15, was the daughter of Thomas Edwards, Efq., of Fayre Crooch, Wadhurft, and Judith, his wife. The latter lady, who was a daughter of

Francis Throckmorton, Efq. (who died 16 14), married fecondly, in the church at Melbury, 1653, Sir John Strang- ways, Kt.

In a yellow fatin drefs, and blue cloak over her fhoulder. Pearl necklace, brooch, and earrings. She holds a fcallop fhell,

into which water falls from a tiny cafcade.

Mrs. Giles Strangways married 1635, and died in 1682.

See 29, 182.

82. Mrs. Thomas Strangways, Jun. Mary, the wife of Thomas Strangways, Jun., daughter and heirefs of Edward Vaughan, of Langwydden, Montgomery-

(hire, married 17 10, died 1747.

Full-length pifture, in white fatin drefs and a blue fcarf. A parrot feated on a bough pecks at her finger. She looks to right. See 103, 137.

83. Charles Fox, Esq^ Sir Stephen Fox s eldeft fon, Stephen, having died young, Charles Fox became his eldeft furviving fon; born 1659; married 1679, Elizabeth Carr, daughter and heirefs of Sir William Trollope, of Cafewick, Lincolnfhire. He was the ENTRANCE HALL.

godfon of King Charles 11., ferved in parliament for the borough of Eye, Suffolk, and for Calne in Wilts, and reprefented Salifbury in the parliaments of 1698, 1700, 1701, 1702, 1705, 1708, 1710, and 1713. Paymafter of the

Forces, 1682. Three years later, at a great poHtical crifis, preferring a clear confcience to ^5,000 a year (the emoluments of place), he voted againft his party, thus proving himfelf worthy of the name which became fo diftinguifhed a century later, in that of his nephew. He was, however, again in office ere very long, and in the reign of King William III. he was Vice-Treafurer, Receiver-General, and Paymafter of the Revenues in Ireland, and was alfo treafurer to Katherine (of Portugal), Queen-Dowager of England. Mrs. Fox

died 1704; and Mr. Fox died in 17 13, in his fifty-fourth year.

This pidlure was formerly at Redlynch, and reprefents Mr. Fox in a long white coat with buttons. Figure turned to right. See 158, 190, 246.

Mrs. James Long.

Third daughter of Colonel Giles Strangways ; born 1641 ; married, 1672, Mr. James Long, the fon of Sir James Long, fecond baronet, and his wife Dorothy, the daughter of Sir Edward Leech, Kt., of Shipley, co. of Derby. Mr. James Long predeceafed his father, and dying vita patris^Mt by his

wife Sufanna, three fons, all baptifed at Melbury, Robert, 1 673, Giles, 1675, and James, 168 1. The eldeft, Robert, fucceeded his grandfather, 1691, but died very foon afterwards, and was fucceeded as fourth baronet by his brother Giles. He too died very early, unmarried, when the youngeft of the three brothers became Sir James Long, fifth baronet. He married Henrietta, daughter of Fulke, Lord Brooke, and had fons and daughters. Mrs. James Long died before her hufband, in

ENTRANCE HALL. 57

and he 1682, married fecondly, Mary, relidl of J. Kightley, Efq.

Mrs. Long is drelTed in this pidlure (which is three-quarters in length) in white fatin. She has much fine brown hair, and wears a cloak falling from her fhoulders. Gold coloured drapery, and

landfcape in background. Figure turned to right, fitting. Lady Victoria Long Wellefley has an extremely pretty pidure of Mrs. James Long, by Sir Peter Lely.

) 85. Stephen, first Earl of Ilchester. 'c^.^/' Born, 1704; married, 1736; created Earl of Ilchefter in 1756; died, 1776.

Lord Ilchefter wears his robes as a peer. See 29, 32, 40, 114, 252.

86. " Mrs. Long " (in a blue drefs). Daughter of James Long, Efq., and Sufanna his wife (who was the daughter of Colonel Giles Strangways). Mr. and

Mrs. James Long left three daughters : Anne, died in 1 7 1 at Lynn in Norfolk, was diftinguilhed in the world as a beauty, and for her accomplifhments. Many verfes were

written in her praife, and fhe is frequently mentioned by

Swift in his works; Sufan, who died, 1695, at Weymouth ;

and Dorothy, baptifed at Stinsford in 1683, ftill living in 1711.

^ 87. Elizabeth, first Countess of Ilchester. Only furviving child of Mr. and Mrs. Strangways Horner; born, 1723; married, 1736; died, 1792. Wears peerefs's robes.

See 29, 34, 41, 184, 240, 253. 88. Mrs. Pool. Daughter of George Ayliffe, of Grittenham, in Wilts, who married, 1665, Judith, the fecond daughter of Colonel Giles Strangways.

Wears a blue drefs.

cgv* >^V» *\JV» ^jV* '\iy* "N^" SMOKING ROOM.

SMOKING ROOM,

ENRY THOMAS. SECOND Earl of Ilchester. Thomas Beach. (1738-1806.) Born, 1747; married, 1772, Mary Therefa Grady; fecondly married, 1794, Maria Digby ; and died, 1802.

This duplicate pifture brought from Redlynch. See 29, 64, 178, 195.

90. Thomas Strangways, Jun., Esq^

Second, but eldeft furviving Ton of Thomas Strangways, Sen., Efq. ; born, 1682; married Mary Vaughan, 1710; died, 1726, s. p.

^ In red ; flafhed fleeves, with fpear in his hand ; alfo a fword. t^-^^/ See 74, 137, 211.

91. Arthur, second Lord Capel, created Earl of Essex, 1661.

Viceroy of Ireland from 1672 to 1677 ; after his recall thence, firft Lord Commiflioner of the Treafury. He fubfequently oppofed Court meafures and the fitting of Parliament at Oxford in 1680. He was accufed of compUcity in the Rye Houfe Plot, and being committed to the Tower, he was found there, July, 1683, with his throat cut. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Algernon Percy, tenth Earl of Northumberland, and had a daughter, Anne, married to 62 SMOKING ROOM.

Charles, third Earl of Carlifle, and a fon, Algernon, who fucceeded him as fecond Earl of Effex.

Lord Effex's fifter, Anne, married, in 1672, John, the eldeft fon of Colonel Giles Strangways of Melbury, but died

very foon after her marriage, s. p. This pidlure, three-quarters length, reprefents Lord Eflex in ^'InCC^ brown velvet coat faftened with hooks. White fleeves and neck-

tie ; long dark hair. Figure turned to right. Loofe red mantle.

92. Sea-Piece ...... Simon de Vlieger, S. de Vlieger was the mafter of Vandeweldt, and was born

r.Z 2^yn in 1612; the time of his death is uncertain.

93. Elizabeth, Duchess of Hamilton. (Crayon pidure.) Second furviving daughter of Thomas Strangways, Sen.,

Efq. ; married James, fifth Duke of Hamilton and fecond Duke of Brandon; born, 1696; married, 1727; and died

s. p. 1729 ; buried at Melbury. She had, on the death of her brother, Thomas Strangways, Jun., fucceeded to a portion of

his eftates, which at her death were inherited by her fifter, Mrs. Strangways Horner.

See III, 137, 179.

94. William O'Brien, Esq, (Crayon pidlure.)

Married Lady Sufan Fox Strangways in 1764, and died,

1 8 15, at Stinsford, near Dorchefter.

See 29, 126.

95. Picture with Deer.

96. Charles St. Denis, Due de S. Evremond, with a dead woodcock.

^ The Due de S. Evremond was one of the moft lively and

\ amufing writers of his times. He ftudied law, but fubfequently entered the army and obtained the rank of general under the Prince of Conde. He loft his commiflion in confe- f^^.^ SMOKING ROOM. 63 quence of fatire, in which he had indulged at the expenfe of that prince, and having embroiled himfelf with Cardinal Mazarin, he was imprifoned in the Baftille. He afterwards took refuge in England, where he was well received by Charles II., and where he died in 1703, aged ninety; and was buried in Weftminfter Abbey.

Full-length, feated, and looking to left. A little dog is feated

on his knee, and another, at a little diftance, looks at him. Wears

a black cap fhowing grey hair at the fides, and a loofe blue wrapping robe. Landfcape in background.

STEWARD'S ROOM.

97. Dr. Hooper, Bishop of Bath and Wells. / '4-Vi(

Allan Ramjay, {1709- 17 84.) ^^W*^

|R. HOOPERhadbeena ftudent at Chrift-church, and was a learned Grecian and Oriental fcholar, diftinguifhed for his fafcinating eloquence. He was a great friend of Bifhop Ken, who, loyal to the Houfe of Stuart, refufed to take the oath of

allegiance to William III., and was in confequence deprived of his bifhopric. Ken would not acknowledge Dr. Kedder,

who was his firft appointed fucceflbr in the bifhopric of Bath and Wells, but when, on the death of that prelate, 1703, Dr. Hooper was appointed to fucceed him. Ken wrote requefting him to accept his congratulations, and figned himfelf " late Bilhop of Bath and Wells." Dr. Hooper was chaplain to the Princefs Mary in Holland, where he remained a year and a half, and the Princefs parted with him with

regret. He was fubfequently made Bifhop of St. Afaph. Later he declined the bifhopric of London and primacy of York, but eventually accepted the bifhopric of Bath and Wells, 1703. Born, 1640; died, 1727.

The bifhop is feated in an armchair, on which his left hand

refts, and faces the fpedator. He wears his gown and large cambric fleeves as a bifliop. T 0 y <4'0 68 STEWARD'S ROOM.

98. Miss Judith Strangways.

Third and youngeft daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas

Strangways, Sen. ; born, 1698; died, 1722.

A blue drefs with hanging fleeves, and white under -fleeves. White ribbon falh, tied in a bow. Half-length. A parrot at

' fide ; <.-\0 the of the pidlure. . , See 202, 208.

99. Thomas Strangways, Sen., Esq.

Born, 1643; married Sufanna Ridout in 1674, and died, 1713.

Oval pifture, infide a fquare wood frame.

See 30, 137.

100. Mrs. Thomas Strangways, Sen.

Sufanna, daughter of John Ridout, Efq., married Mr. Strangways, 1674; died at Milton near Bruton, in Somerfet- fhire, 17 18.

Wears a green drefs, and has a book in her hand. See 36, 137, 149, 197, 216.

Christian, Lady Fox. ' 'f* 101. ^

Second wife of Sir Stephen Fox, Kt., born 1679, was the daughter of the Rev. Ffrancis Hope (Redbor of Hazeby, Lincolnfhire, from 1670 to 1678), and Chriftian Palfryman his wife. Chriftian Hope married Sir Stephen Fox in 1703, and died in 171 8.

This pidlure reprefents Lady Fox in a blue drefs, with a flower in her hand. ^ ^ Sec 243.

102. Sir John Strangways, Kt.

Born, 1584; died, 1666.

See 78, 118. STEWARD'S ROOM. 6^

103. Mrs. Thomas Strangways, Jun.

Mary, the daughter of Edward Vaughan, of Langwydden, married, 17 10, Mr. Thomas Strangways, Jun., who fhe

furvived many years ; fhe died in 1747.

Mrs. Strangways, in this pifture, wears a plain blue drcfs, and carries fome flowers in her right hand.

See 82, 137.

104. Portrait, unknown.

Oval pidure, in a fquare frame.

xnxxixxm x mtnm

BILLIARD ROOM AND LIBRARY.

BILLIARD ROOM.

105. Monkey, Dog, and Fruit.

IN carved oak frame. This pidure was brought from Redlynch in 1792, and had been bought in Holland by Henry Thomas, fecond Earl of Ilchefter.

r^- 106. Lady Hervey (Molly Lepell). ^ ^^^^f^

^ Mary, daughter of Brigadier- General Lepell, maid of ^"'^ honour to Caroline, Princefs of Wales, married, 1720, John, who, by the death of his elder brother, became Lord

Hervey, eldeft furviving fon of John, firft Earl of Briftol.

This pidlure, with the carved oak panel in which it is framed,

was brought from Redlynch, 1 868, and reprefents Lady Hervey wearing a white drefs laced with blue. Small white cap. A dog on a crimfon cufhion. Landfcape and fky. Figure turned to right.

' See 37.

107. Flowers, and a Squirrel. 74 LIBRART.

LIBRARY.

The Library and PafTage connefling it were added to the houfe at Melbury in 1870, when an orangery, built by Mrs. Strangways Horner, was removed, and the lower portion of the oriel window which had been enclofed in it, opened out. Mr. Salvin, who died 1881, was the architeft.

108. Mary E. A., Countess of Ilchester E, Clifford,

NLY daughter of the Earl of Dartrey, married Henry Edward, fifth Earl of Ilchefter, in February, 1872.

This pidlure, which is in water-colours. Hands on an eafel in the Library, and was painted in 1876. High morning drefs, of Tilled colour, with embroidery. Face almoft in profile, turned

to the left. Background of foliage and flowers. See No. 51.

109. Colonel Giles Strangways.

Kt., 1 ; Son of Sir John Strangways, born 6 1 5 married Sufanna, daughter of Thomas Edwards, of Fayre Crooch,

in May, 1635 ; died 1675.

This piflure is fimilar to 72. See alfo 29, 207.

no: James, fifth Duke of Hamilton, second Duke of Brandon, K.T.

Succeeded his father, who was one of the moft honoured and diftinguifhed ftatefmen of his day, and who, having accepted a challenge from Charles, Lord Mohun, 17 12, and

flain his opponent, fell himfelf, it was fufpedled through the LIBRARY,

treachery of General Macartney, Lord Mohun's fecond. James, fifth Duke of Hamilton, married three times. By his firft wife, Anne, daughter of John, Earl of Dundonald, he had an only fon, James, who fucceeded him. His fecond

wife was Elizabeth, fifter and co-heir of her brother,

Thomas Strangways, of Melbury, who died 1729, s. p.; and he married thirdly, Anne, daughter and co-heir of Edward Spencer, Efq., of Rendlefham, Suffolk, by whom he left two fons and one daughter. His eldeft fon, who fucceeded him in the dukedom, 1742, married in 1752 one of the beautiful Mifs Gunnings.

Figure turned to the left, but looking towards the right. A

gun firing in the diftance is intended to Ihow he was Mafter of the Ordnance. Full-length pidlure. He wears his fword,

ftar of the Order of the Thiftle, alfo the ribbon. See 209.

III. Elizabeth, Duchess of Hamilton.

Daughter of Mr. Thomas Strangways, Sen., was born

fifth of Hamilton 1696 ; was the fecond wife of James, Duke and Brandon, who fhe married in 1727, and died in 1729

Full-length pifture. She ftands almoft facing the fpeftator, leaning on her right arm. The duchefs wears a white drefs with yellow drapery. A ducal coronet ftands on a table to the right. See 93, 137, 179.

Zucchero, (b. i 112. Dame Grace (on panel) . . F. 1543.) her The firft wife of Sir John Strangways, Kt., with daughter, Howarda. ^tatis fuas 27, a.d. 16 12. Dame Grace was the daughter of Sir George Trenchard, of Wolveton, near Dorchefter, born 1583, died 1652. Her of daughter, Howarda, married firft, Richard Rogers, Efq., 76 LIBRARY.

Bryanfton (died 1622), and fecondly fhe married, 1624, Sir Lewis Dyve, half-brother of George, Lord Digby, afterwards fecond Earl of Briftol, whofe mother, Beatrix Walcot, had

firft married Sir John Dyve of Bromham, and after his death

had become the wife of firft Earl of Briftol. Sir Lewis and Lady Dyve had three fons and one daughter. The eldeft fon, Francis, married his coufin Grace, eldeft daughter of Colonel Giles Strangways. Lady Sundon (No. 159) was daughter of the third fon, John Dyve, Efq.

Dame Grace turns to the left in this pifture, leading the child by her hand. Both wear very long pointed bodices, ruffs, and high-heeled Ihoes. Hair drawn back very high, with caps and red feathers.

Hon. Charles Hamilton. A >J^^.V i()

Ninth fon of James, fixth Earl of Abercorn. He was Com- miftioner for examining the Public Accounts, and M.P.

This full-length pidlure was brought from Redlynch, 1872, and reprefents the Hon. C. Hamilton Handing, turned to the left, but looking at fpedator. He wears a red coat, cocked hat and leather gaiters. Loading his gun. A man in a green coat and cap kneeling behind, holding two dogs. A pheafant on the ground. See 32.

1 14. Stephen Fox, aged twenty-nine, a.d. 1733.

Eldeft fon of Sir Stephen Fox by his fecond marriage ; born 1704; married Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Strang- ways Horner, in 1736; created Lord Ilchefter, 1741; Earl of Ilchefter, 1756; died 1776. This pidure was brought from Redlynch, 1 872 ; three-quarters ^ImJ ' length, dreffed in a long pale drab coat and black velvet cap. Looking to the left, he holds a gun in one hand, and a partridge in the other.

See 29, 32, 40, 85, 252. LIBRART, 77

Edward, sixth Lord Digby Pompeo Battoni, (1702-1787.)

Eldeft fon of Edward, third (but eldeft furviving) fon of William, fifth Lord Digby, and Jane his wife, daughter of the Earl of Gainfborough, and Charlotte, the daughter of Sir Stephen Fox, who had, on the death of his elder brother Robert, reprefented the county of Warwick in parliament, and con-

tinued to do fo till his death, Odober, 1746. Edward, fixth Lord Digby, fucceeded his grandfather, William, Lord

Digby, 1752 ; was Groom of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales, afterwards George III., and was eieded

member of parHament for Malmefbury, 175 1, and for Wells in 1754. Of his benevolence and kindnefs of dif-

pofition there feems no doubt, and it is faid that at Chriftmas and Eafter he was always obferved to be very plainly and fhabbily attired, the reverfe of his ufually extremely well-drefTed appearance. His relations (Mr. Fox, his uncle,

in particular) -determined to difcover the reafon of this change of apparel at thefe feafons, and afked fome friends to v/atch

his fteps. On doing fo, they difcovered he was in the habit of vifiting the Marfhalfea Prifon, and they were informed by the turnkey that Lord Digby went there at leaft twice a year,

if not oftener, freeing many of the prifoners by paying their debts, and not only that, but that he then gave them fuch fupport as they required for themfelves and their families

till they could obtain employment. He died unmarried in November, 1757, and his title and properties reverted to his next brother, Henry.

This pifture, brought from Redlynch in 1 868, reprefents Edward, Lord Digby, drefTed in a coat trimmed with fable fur. He leans on the back of a chair. Crimfon curtain in background. Half-length, looks to left. See 252. )

78 LIBRARY.

1 1 6. Jane, Countess of Northampton.

Sir Lely. 1 7- 1 Peter ( 6 1 6 80.

Second furviving daughter of Sir Stephen Fox, Kt., born 1669. Her father having dechned propofals of marriage

from Lord Cornbury, fon of the Earl of Clarendon, and alfo, on account of her youth, a propofal made through Evelyn

(as he chronicles in his diary. May, 168 1) from Lady Sun- derland that fhe fhould marry her fon, Lord Spencer, fhe married, 1686, George, fourth Earl of Northampton, who had fucceeded his father, 1681. In 1689 he was reconftituted Lord Lieutenant for Warwickfhire, from which pofition he had been fuperfeded in 1686, owing to his oppofing meafures for repealing the Penal Laws. He was alfo Conftable of the Tower for fome years. In 1695, William III. paid Lord and Lady Northampton a vifit at Caftle Afhby. She died in

1 721, and Lord Northampton died 1727, leaving three fons and two daughters.

This pidlure came from Redlynch in 1872, and reprefents Lady Northampton fitting nearly facing the fpeftator, dreffed in a

red brown drefs ornamented with jewels. Brown filk petticoat. See 245.

117. Henry Fox, created Lord Holland, 176-5. D^^V?

Ninth fon of Sir Stephen Fox, but fecond by his fecond MfX^AjL marriage, born 1705; married, in 1744, Caroline, eldeft daughter of the of Richmond, and died \^ fecond Duke 1774.

This pidlure was brought from Redlynch in 1 872. Full-length, Handing, figure turned to left, but looking ftraight forward, dreffed in a brown coat, red troufers, and long boots. A gun in his hand. A fervant kneeling down. Two dogs fitting by, one of which

wears a collar on which is a fox.

See 33, 40, 135, 251. LIBRARY. 79

Sir John Strangways, Kt.

Born 1584; married Grace, daughter of Sir George Trenchard, of Wolveton, near Dorchefter, who died, aged fixty-feven, in 1652. He married fecondly, Judith, daughter of Francis Throckmorton, widow of Thomas Edwards, of Fayre Crooch, near Wadhurft, in 1653, and died 1666.

See 78, 102.

No. 78 in Entrance Hall, duplicate pidure.

Mrs. Strangways Horner.

Sir Godfrey Kneller, (1648-17 23.)

Sufanna, daughter of Thomas Strangways, Sen., Efq., fifter and co-heirefs of her brother, Mr. Thomas Strangways, Jun., born 1690; married Thomas Horner, Efq., of Mells Park, Somerfet, 17 13, and died 1758.

Full-length. Figure turned to right, but head inclining to left,

wearing a white fatin drefs and blue fcarf. The left arm refts on a ftone arch. A balket of flowers. See 29, 31, 137, 176, 204, 239, 240.

The Hon. Mrs. Digby . J, Richard/on, (1665- 1745.) Charlotte, daughter of Sir Stephen Fox, Kt., born 1707. The only furviving fifter of Stephen, Earl of Ilchefter, and Henry, Lord Holland. (Chriftian, who had been born a twin with Henry, 1705, was killed by a fall from a window, aged two years.) Charlotte Fox married the Hon. Edward Digby, third, but eldeft furviving, fon of William, fifth Lord Digby, in 1729, and was the mother of one daughter and fix fons, of whom the eldeft, Edward, became fixth Lord Digby (1752), and died unmarried, 1757, and the fecond fon, Henry, fuc- LIBRARY.

ceeded him as feventh Baron Digby, of Geafhill, Kings County, Ireland. Mrs. Digby died in 1778.

This piflure was brought from Redlynch, 1868. Mrs. Digby is reprefented full-length, ftanding. White fatin drefs. Small black cap and feather, and an arrow in her hand.

Richardfon was the mafter of Hudfon the painter (1701- 1779)5 whofe pupil was Sir Jofhua Reynolds.

Elizabeth, Lady Cornwallis. ^^"^^!^^ '^^^

The eldeft daughter of Sir Stephen Fox by his firft marriage, born 1656. She married, 1673, Charles, third Lord Cornwallis, who was diftinguifhed as one of the moft accomplifhed gentlemen of the age. They lived principally with Sir Stephen and Lady Fox during the hfe of Elizabeth, Lady Cornwallis, and had four fons, Charles, William, James,

and John, who all died unmarried, except the eldeft, who

fucceeded to his father's title and property in 1698. After the death of Elizabeth, Lady Cornwallis, in 16 82, Lord Cornwallis married fecondly. May, 1688, Anne Scott, Duchefs of Monmouth and Buccleugh, widow of James, Duke of Monmouth, beheaded 1685. He then lived at Brome, in Suffolk, in great ftate, fpending enormous fums of money on the improvement of that place, and there he died, April, 1698, leaving his fon a much diminifhed inheritance. The Duchefs furvived him many years, dying in 1731. Sir Stephen Fox built a hofpital for the benefit of aged people at Brome, in memory of his daughter Elizabeth, Lady Cornwallis, and he alfo built one at Caftle Aftiby, in Northamptonfhire, his daughter Jane having married the fourth Earl of Northampton.

This pifture was brought from Redlynch, 1872, and reprefents Lady Cornwallis fitting drelTed as a fliepherdefs, with a crook in LIBRARY. 8i

her hand. She wears a yellow fatin drefs with blue drapery. A lamb is being tended by her. See 244, 249.

Infide a table with glafs cafe in the Library are miniatures of Henry Thomas, fecond Earl of Ilchefter, by Roch, 1798 ; born 1747; married Mary Therefa Grady, 1772; fecondly

married Maria Digby ; died 1802. Mary Therefa, Countefs of Ilchefter, third daughter oi Standifh Grady, Efq., Capercullen, co. Leitrim (whofe wife was the only daughter and heirefs of T. Hungerford, Efq., of Cahir mor); married, 1772, the fecond Earl of Ilchefter; died 1790. Maria, Countefs of Ilchefter, third daughter of the Hon. and Rev. William Digby, Dean of Durham, and Charlotte, daughter of Jofeph Cox., Efq., was the fecond wife of Henry Thomas, fecond Earl of Ilchefter; married 1794; died 1842. Lady Charlotte and Lady Louifa Fox Strangways, fourth

and fifth daughters of the fecond Earl of Ilchefter, by his firft marriage. Lady Charlotte, born 1784; married, 18 10, Sir Charles Lemon, Bart., of Carclew, Cornwall; died 1826.

Lady Louifa, born 1785 ; married Lord Henry Petty, afterwards third Marquefs of Lanfdowne, and died in 1851. Henry Thomas Leopold, Lord Stavordale, eldeft fon of

the third Earl of Ilchefterj born 1816 ; died, unmarried, 1837. Elizabeth Kitty Acland, daughter of Colonel Dyke Acland, and his wife. Lady Harriot, fifth daughter of Stephen, firft Earl of Ilchefter, married, in 1796, Henry George, Lord

Porchefter (who in 1 8 1 1 became fecond Earl of Carnarvon), and died in 18 13. Rear-Admiral (Charles) Fielding, born 1780; married, of the fecond Earl of 1 804, Lady ElizalDeth, eldeft daughter Ilchefter, and widow of Davenport Talbot, Efq. He was great grandfon of Bafil, fourth Earl of Denbigh; died 1837, M 82 LIBRARY.

leaving two daughters: Caroline married, 1831, the third Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, and Horatia married, 1850, Mr. Gaisford, and died 1851. Vice- Admiral Jofeph Digby, fourth fon of the Hon. and Rev. William Digby, Dean of Durham, born 1786, died i860. Three rings containing fmall miniature portraits of Mrs.

Strangways Horner, the firft Earl of Ilchefter, and of his daughter, Lady Harriot Acland. On the lid of a green enamel and gold filagree box, " Lady

Lucy Digby," fourth daughter of the firft Earl of Ilchefter, wife of the Hon. Stephen Digby, her coufin, born 1748, married 1771, died 1787. Another, though lefs pretty

miniature, is placed beneath the above, and is fhown by

prefling a fmall fpring at the fide of the box. A bracelet containing a miniature of Elizabeth, daughter of Colonel Thomas Chudleigh, fecond fon of Sir George Chudleigh, Bart., Governor of Chelfea College, maid of honour

to the Princefs of Wales (mother of George III.). She

privately married, 1744, Hon. A. J. Hervey, a grandfon of the firft Earl of Briftol, and made herfelf notorious, in 1769, by publicly marrying Evelyn, Duke of Kingfton, and was in confequence convi6led by her Peers of bigamy, 1776. She died at Fontainebleau in 1788. This bracelet was given to Lord Ilchefter by his coufin Fanny, daughter of the Hon. and Rev. Charles Strangways, whofe wife's mother was a Chudleigh.

On the lid of a little box in this cafe is a coarfe likenefs of the Duke of Kingfton, died 1773. CENTRE HALL AND SOUTH STAIRCASE.

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122. St. John preaching in the Wilderness. Ludovico Caracci. (1555-1619.)

UDOVICO CARACCI originated the "Eclec- tic" fchool of painting in Bologna, and was followed in fuch by his coufins, Agoftino and Annibale. This fchool was alfo called The Caracci School/' and their objed was to combine the great charadleriftics of the beft mafters of the previous century, then much deteriorated, with the ftudy of nature,

from which another clafs of painters profefled alone to ftudy.

123. Prince Maurice.

Fourth fon of Frederick, King of Bohemia, and Elizabeth,

daughter of James I., born 1620. Both he and Prince Rupert were early fent to England, and adlively engaged themfelves in the Royal caufe. Prince Maurice had the command of a regiment in the weft of England, and gained, Bath died, unmarried, in 1 643, a vidory at Lanfdowne, near ; 1654, being ftiipwrecked. This pidlure was brought from Redlynch in 1871. Figure

turned to the left. Prince Maurice wears armour, a fword 86 CENTRE HALL AND SOUTH STAIRCASE,

hanging by his fide, and a baton in his hand. Hair brown, long and flowing.

124. Our Saviour in the Garden. G. F. B, Guercino. (1590- 1666.)

This pifture, and alfo No. 122, were left by Mrs. Thomas Strangways to her fon, Mr. Thomas Strangways, Jun.

125. Flowers and Monkey.

SOUTH STAIRCASE.

126. William O'Brien, EsQ^ . . F. Cotes, (1725-1770.) Married Lady Sufan Fox Strangways, 1764; died at

Stinsford, 18 15.

Mr. 0*Brien wears a red coat, white muflin fleeves, and powdered hair. Oval crayon portrait. Figure turned to right.

See 29, 94.

2-1 127. William Fox . . . Mary Beak, (163 697.)

Fourth fon of Sir Stephen Fox, Kt. ; born 1662 ; died 1680.

Pidlure within a painted ftone oval border. Flowing curling

brown hair ; brown filk robe with white necktie. Figure turned

to left. To waift. See 189.

128. Lady Susan O'Brien . . F, Cotes, (i 725-1770.)

Born 1743; married 1764 ; died 1827, at Stinsford.

Lady Sufan in this picture is dreifed in a blue drefs with black

lace. Hair tied with blue ribbon. She turns to the left, and refts her face on her right hand. Oval crayon pifture. CENTRE HALL AND SOUTH STAIRCASE, 87

Horace Walpole compared Cotes, who was eminent as a painter in crayons, to Rofalba. Thefe two portraits, Nos. 126 and 128, were left to Henry, Lord Ilchefter, by Lady Sufan O'Brien, who was his aunt.

See 29, 42, 166.

129. King Henry VIII. (on panel) Hans Holbein. (1498-1554.) Second fon of Henry VII. and Elizabeth of York, born

1491 ; married Catherine of Arragon, 1509; Anne Boleyn,

Lady Jane Seymour, ; Anne of Cleves, 1533 ; 1536 1539 ; Lady Catherine Howard, Lady Katherine Parr, 1 540 ; 1 543. the throne, He fucceeded to 1 509, and died 1 547 ; buried at Windfor.

This pi£lure was originally at Redlynch, and reprefents Henry VIII., rather more than half-length, facing fpeftator. Wears a long dark brown gown, or "frocke," barred horizontally with

ftripes of gold. Short upper full fleeve, with puffed clofe-fitting

fleeve below, richly ornamented. His face in full. Thin mouftaches, which juft reach the fliort thick beard. A collar of white fur round his neck. His right hand grafps a malfive ftick with highly ornamented top, and the other hand holds a dark brown glove. Large rings on the forefingers of each hand, and

on the little finger of left hand alfo, a fmall ring. Background plain dark green. Black velvet cap with pearls and jewels, but no feather. Chain of gold fet with ftones, of which faftenings fimilar in defign clafp the drefs in front, at even diftances.

130. Picture of a Lady . . Simon Verelft, (1664-1710.)

This pidure was brought from Redlynch, where it had been put away in a cupboard much torn, 1868.

Blue drefs. Short fleeves with white under-fleeve. Amber drapery. Curly light hair, and wreath of flowers in her hands. Trees in the background. Figure turned to right.

131. Four Limoges Enamels.

Reprefenting the fiege of Troy. .

88 CENTRE HALL AND SOUTH STAIRCASE.

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132. Hon. George Compton . Sir Godfrey Kneller, (1648-1723.) Second fon of George, fourth Earl of Northampton, and Jane, daughter of Sir Stephen Fox, Kt. He became fixth Earl of Northampton, on the death of his eldeft brother, James, fifth Earl, 1754, and married the daughter of the

Rev. J. Payne; died in 1758. He was fucceeded as feventh Earl, by Charles, the fon of a younger brother.

This pifture came from Redlyneh, 1 870. He wears a fliort

blue tunic trimmed with gold lace. Red fcarf floating in the air. Blue ftockings, yellow Ihoes. A bow and quiver of arrows. At his feet, an Italian greyhound.

133. James Fox. U'^/^j%./ ( eW)

Fifth fon of Sir Stephen Fox, Kt. ; born 1665 ; died 1677.

Boy in a yellow tunic. White filk bag hanging on his left arm. Sandals on his feet. Blue fcarf and fhepherd's crook. Blenheim

fpaniel and lambs. Walking forward to left, but looks at fpe6lator. Brought from Redlyneh, 1872. S ^ >C

134. Lady Elizabeth Fox Strangways, and Miss Kitty Acland. {TiBure -painted^ i???? h Thomas Beach.) Eldeft daughter of Henry Thomas, fecond Earl of Ilchefter, aged four, and Elizabeth Kitty, her coufin, daughter of Colonel and Lady Harriot Dyke Acland. Lady Elizabeth Fox Strangways, born 1773; married, 1796, W. D. Talbot, Efq., of Laycock Abbey, Wilts; and fecondly, 1804, Captain Fielding, R.N., afterwards Rear- Admiral, who died 1837, and Lady Elizabeth died 1845. Kitty, the daughter of Colonel Acland, married, 1796, Henry

George, Lord Porchefter, fecond Earl of Carnarvon, 1 8 11 On the death of her only brother, John, 1795, ihe had fucceeded to Pixton in Somerfet, and other Dyke properties, which thus reverted to Lord Carnarvon and his family.

Lady Carnarvon died in 18 13. CENTRE HALL AND SOUTH STAIRCASE. 89

Lady Elizabeth Therefa Fox Strangways Hands with her arms croffed, looking down upon her coufin, Kitty Acland, who fits at the foot of a column with a peach in her lap. They are in a

garden or park ; drelTed in white frocks, over pale green flips (which have probably been blue) and blue falhes. The child

fitting has dark hair and eyes. The other fair, with blue eyes.

Henry Fox, Lord Holland, 1747 Echardt {after Vanloo),

Born 1705; created Lord Holland 1763; died 1774.

This pifture came from Miftley Hall in ElTex, and was given Lord Ilchefter by Lord Rivers, 1856. Echardt came to England in 1740. See 33, 40, 117, 251.

Mr. Watson.

The architedt employed by Thomas Strangways, Sen., Efq., when he built the fouth and eaft fronts of the houfe at

Melbury, greatly enlarging it, a.d. 1692. There is, unfor-

tunately, no pidure or plan of the houfe as it had been previous to this addition. When the yellow damafk hangings were placed in the dining room in 1873, Mr. Watfon's portrait was difcovered above an oak doorway behind the

canvas in the centre of the room.

Large Family Picture on Staircase Hill.

Mr. Thomas Strangways, Sen. . Born 1643* died 1713.

Mrs. Thomas Strangways, Sen. . j> 1660 j> 1718. Giles Strangways 1698...... j> 1677 J3

Thomas Strangways, Jun. (married Mary Vaugh;an) „ 1682 55 1726. Strangways 1687 1716. John ..... j> 55 I I 1694. Wadham Strangways ..... if 69 55 1706. Henry Strangways ..... 1697 it

Susanna (married Thomas Horner, Efq.) 1690 55 1758.

Elizabeth (married the Duke of Hamilton) . 1696 55 1729. 1722. Judith Strangways ..... 1698 5> n CENTRE HALL AND SOUTH STAIRCASE.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Strangways, Jun., and an old fervant bringing a letter, in the corner of the pidure, are faid to have been added at the time of their marriage in 17 lo; and fome of the children, who had died, are reprefented in the iky above.

The painting on the ceiling, above the ftaircafe, reprefents

The Council of the Gods," and is the work of Sir James Thornhill (167 8- 1734). PASSAGE TO NORTH STAIRCASE,

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NORTH PASSAGE.

PASSAGE TO NORTH STAIRCASE, NORTH STAIRCASE, AND NORTH PASSAGE.

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138. OUR Pictures in Crayons, representing the Four Seasons.

139. Venus AND Adonis. After Titian. (1477-1576.)

140. Da NAE After Titian.

141. John, Lord Hervey . . Enoch Zeeman. (d. 1744.)

Eldeft foil, by his fecond marriage, of John, firft Earl of Briftol. He entered Parliament, as Member for Bury, in 1725. He fupported Sir Robert Walpole, and was called up to the Upper as of Ickworth, Houfe, Lord Hervey 1733 ; appointed

Keeper of the Privy Seal, 1740 ; alfo one of the Lords Juf- tices, during His Majefty's abfence on the Continent. He was

beyond doubt a man of confiderable wit and ability ; fought a

1 duel with Pulteney, and quarrelled with Pope. Born 696 ; he PASSAGE BELOPF NORTH STAIRCASE.

married, 1720, Mary, daughter of Brigadier-General Nicholas Lepell, a celebrated beauty and Maid of Honour to the Queen, extolled by the wits of the day as ''Molly Lepell."

By her he left four fons, three of whom became fucceflively Earls of Briftol, and four daughters, and died 1743. His

widow furvived till 1768. His fecond fon, Auguftus John, made himfelf notorious by having privately married, 1744, the celebrated Mifs Chudleigh, who afterwards, in 1769, publicly married Evelyn, Duke of Kingfton. Lord Hervey wrote '' Memoirs of the Reign of George II.," publiflied by

J. Wilfon Croker, 1848.

This pifture was brought from Redlynch, 1872, and reprefents Lord Hervey full-length, as a young man. Figure turned to

left. Dreffed in a white coat and green waiftcoat, white ftockings, and a cap in his hand. See 40. Enoch Zeeman was a Dutch painter much employed during the reigns of George II. and George III. Died, 1744.

217. A Part of the Stud of Horses belonging to William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, K.G.

Painted by A. Biepenbeck, (1607- 167 5.)

William Cavendifh, Duke of Newcaftle, was the fon of Sir

C. Cavendifh. Born, 1 592. The (launch adherent of Charles I. He defeated Fairfax at Atherton Moor, and commanded the- Royalift forces at Marfton Moor, where he was defeated

and retired to Antwerp, and did not return to England till the Reftoration. He had been created Earl and Marquis of Newcaftle in 1643, and in 1665 was created Duke of New- caftle. Died, 1676. He was the author of a well-known work on horfemanfhip, illuftrated with plates from defigns by

Diepenbeck, who was an eminent artift and a pupil of Rubens. See page 144, No. 217. NORTH STAIRCASE,

This pi6ture was bought by Henry Stephen, third Earl of

Ilchefter, and was placed in the Saddle Room, from whence it is now removed.

142. Queen Mary of Modena.

Marie Beatrix, daughter of Alphonfe d'Efte, third Duke of

Modena. Married, 1 673, in her fifteenth year, James, Duke of York, prefumptive heir to the throne of England, at that time forty years of age. She was confidered very beautiful

and was the theme of many a poem ; her eyes efpecially were

admired, and were black and luftrous. James II. and Queen Mary were crowned, 1685, and her fon Prince James Edward was born 1688. In December of that year, owing to the * landing of the Prince of Orange, the Queen made her efcape

to France, and pafled the remainder of her life in exile. She

died at St. Germains, 171 8.

This pifture was brought from Redlynch in 1857, and reprefents the Queen fitting, her figure turned to the right. She wears a brown drefs and low body, with fliort fleeves. Blue drapery and pearl necklace. Her hand refts on a fmall fpaniel.

NORTH STAIRCASE.

143. Sir Thomas More. l<^n^ Filled many high Only fon of Sir J. More. Born, 1480. offices, but fell into difgrace with Henry VIII., for difap- proving his marriage with Anne Boleyn, and was beheaded in 1535- Very fmall oval pidlure painted on copper, in a fquare frame. right he is The figure of Sir Thomas More is turned to the ; drelfed in a black velvet gown trimmed with fable. Black cap with flaps over ears. A large gold chain with letters S in brown pairing uniformly to right, and an ornament of gold in the form holding a of a barbed quatrefoil. The right hand is vifible, paper. Crimfon fleeve. 96 NORTH STAIRCASE,

144. King Henry VII. Son of Edmond Tudor, Earl of Richmond, and Margaret, the granddaughter of John of Gaunt. Born at Pembroke, after 1457. Proclaimed king the vidlory at Bofworth, 1485 ; married Elizabeth of York, eldeft daughter of Edward IV., i486; died 1509, and was buried in his own chapel at Weftminfter.

Small oval piflure within a fquare frame (7I inches X 6). King Henry VII. looks to right. Wears a fcarlet robe trimmed with miniver, and open fleeves filled in with black. Black velvet cap trimmed with gold braid, and an ornament with pearls. He wears a large gold chain from which hangs an ornament with black ftones and a large pendant pearl. Pid:ure painted on

copper. ,

145. Ben Jonson. Born, 1573. Dramatift and fcholar. Poet Laureate, 1619. Died, 1637.

Oval picture painted on copper within a fquare frame (7^ X

6-| inches). Wears a loofe black filk robe and white cravat. Looks at fpedator.

146. Cardinal Wolsey.

The celebrated Cardinal and Minifter of State of Henry VIII. Born, 1471. In the zenith of his power he gave umbrage to Henry VIII., by not, as he confidered, fufficiently promoting his divorce with Catherine of Arragon, and his property was therefore confifcated. In 1530 he was appre- hended at York, and died on his way to London.

Oval pifture in a fquare frame. DrelTed in cardinal's robes and

cap. The face is in profile. He carries a roll of parchment in

his left hand. Painted on copper.

Cardinal Wolfey is generally reprefented in profile, owing to his having fuffered from a defedl in one of his eyes. NORTH STAIRCASE,

^?^i47. Right Hon. Thomas Winnington.

Enoch Zeeman. (d. 1744.)

Son of Mr. Salwey Winnington and Anne, daughter of the

firft Lord Foley; born, 1696.

The Right Hon. Thomas Winnington was educated at Weftminfter and at Chriftchurch, Oxford. He was renowned for his ready wit, and his good humour was inexhauftible.

M.P. for Droitwich 1725 to 1741 ; afterwards for Wor- cefter; became Lord of the Admiralty, 1730, and of the

Treafury, 1736 ; Cofferer of the Privy Council, 1740 ; and Paymafter General, 1743. (On his death, in 1746, Mr. Pitt was appointed to fucceed him in this office.) He was a never failing fupporter of Sir Robert Walpole's, and a great friend to Stephen, Lord Ilchefter, and his brother.

This pidlure was brought from Redlynch, 1871. Mr. Win-

nington is feen turned to the right, ftanding, loading his gun, and dreffed in a brown coat. Three-cornered hat under which he wears a linen cap. V^/y^

148. A Venetian General. Att^^ jw-* ^-^s^L^

This pidure was brought from Redlynch in 1871. The

general is reprefented in armour. 'f'S^v" )c

r49. Mrs. Thomas Strangways, Sen.

Sufanna, daughter of John Ridout, Efq. ; married Mr. Strangways, 1674; died at Milton, in Somerfet/hire, 171 8.

In a green drefs, with a book in her hand. She turns to the

left.

See Nos. 36, 100, 137, 197, 216.

Maria . Vandyck. (1599-1641.) ^C^ty 17L 150. Queen Henrietta Sixth and youngeft child of Henry IV. of France, and 1>«^ Marie de* Medici; born, 1609; married King Charles I. at ^TK^. NORTH STAIRCASE.

Notre Dame, 1625. Mother of King Charles II. and King

James 11. Quitted England in 1 642, and did not return till after the Reftoration, 1660. Died at the caftle of Colombe

in France, and was buried in the abbey of St. Denis, 1669.

More than half-length pidlure. The Queen ftands, and looks towards the left, dreffed in a yellow drefs. Lace turned back over fleeves, and deep lace collar falling over the body of her

drefs. Pearl necklace, and a ftring of large pearls, paffing over the lace collar, round the fhoulders, tied in front v^ith a bow, and a loop of pearls, and a black ftone jewel. A black band and rofette of the fame round the waift. A pear-lhaped pearl hangs

from her ear. Crown fet with pearls placed on a table to left. Blue fky, ftone pillar, and a red curtain in background.

Isabella, Duchess of Grafton W. Wijfing. (1656- 1687.)

Only child and heirefs of Henry Bennett, created Earl of

Arlington, whofe titles, by the provifions of the patent, pafled to her at the death of her father, and fhe became, in her own right, Countefs of ArHngton and Vifcountefs Thetford. Lady Ifabella Bennett was betrothed when only five years of age to Henry FitzRoy, aged eleven, the fecond fon of

Charles II. by Lady Caftlemaine (Barbara Villiers, daughter of

Vifcount Grandifon, and wife of the firft Earl of Caftlemaine, created Duchefs of Cleveland, 1670). Henry FitzRoy, born 1663, was created Duke of Grafton, 1675; and was killed by a wound received in ftorming the city of Cork, 1690. He was fucceeded by his fon Charles, fecond Duke of Grafton. The Duchefs re-married, 1698, Sir Thomas Hanmer, by whom fhe had no children, and on her death her titles reverted to her fon, the Duke of Grafton, 1722. In later years ftie appears to have called herfelf by her own title of Countefs of Arlington. Sir Stephen Fox thus defig- nates her in making the entry of her having ftood as god- NORTH PASSAGE. 99

mother to his daughter Chriftian, twin fifter (born 26th Sept.

1705) of Henry Fox (firft Lord Holland).

In this pidure, which was formerly at Redlynch, the Duchefs

is feen feated, wearing a brown drefs with blue drapery, and a wreath of apple blo/Tom in her hand. Her long auburn hair falls over her fhoulder. Long loofe fleeve, and an armlet of jewels. , ,

152. King Charles II. . . Sir Peter Lely. (1617-1680.)

Son of Charles I. and Henrietta Maria of France, born

1 630. After the death of Charles 1. in January, 1 649, he lived

in exile until the period of the Reftoration, when he entered ^ i London in triumph. May 29, 1660. He married. May, 1662, Catherine of Braganza, daughter of John IV. of

Portugal, and died at St. James's Palace, 1685.

This pidure (buft portrait) was brought from Redlynch, 1858. King Charles II. wears armour, and a lace necktie.

NORTH PASSAGE.

153. Boys Dancing.

154. Goddesses IN Clouds . Luca Giordano. (1632-1705.) This pidlure brought from Redlynch, 1868.

- . . Poujfin. (i 594-1665.) 155. Noah's Sacrifice , N, This pidure brought from Redlynch, 1868.

156. Van ScHNYTKiN Ipfe pinxit. Black Head of a dark-complexioned man, with mouftaches. fpeftator. robe, and muflin collar. He turns to right, but looks at loo NORTH PASSAGE.

'^^'.^^^^^ 157. Henry, seventh Lord Digby, of Geashill. Born 1730. Was the fecond furviving Ton of the Hon. Edward Digby, and his wife, Charlotte, youngeft daughter of Sir Stephen Fox, Kt. He fucceeded his brother Edward,

,^ ^^'"^^ fixth Lord Digby, in 1757, and was created firft Lord Digby of Sherborne, being thus raifed to the dignity of a peer of

Great Britain ; with remainder, faihng his having children, to

the heirs male of his father, who left fix fons and one daughter. Henry, Lord Digby, married Elizabeth, daughter of the Hon. Charles Fielding, brother of the Earl of Denbigh, 1763. She died 1765, and her only fon died an infant. Lord Digby married fecondly, Mary, daughter of John Knowler, Efq., in 1770, by whom he had three fons and two daughters. In

1 7 90, he was advanced to the dignities of Vifcount Colefhill, County of Warwick, and Earl Digby, County of Lincoln, and died in 1793, when he was fucceeded by his eldefi: fon, who died unmarried, 1856, and the earldom became extindt. The Englifh barony of Sherborne, reverted with the

Irifh barony of Digby, to Edward St. Vincent (grandfon of the Hon. WilHam Digby, Dean of Durham, fourth fon of the Hon. Edward Digby, and Charlotte his wife, daughter of Sir Stephen Fox, Kt.), the prefent Peer.

Half-length pifture. Lord Digby looks at fpetf^ator. Wears a pink fancy drefs, and carries a hat under his arm.

ck^ 158. Charles Fox, Esq^. C . V*^ ou-K^Ok

fon Sir Eldeft furviving of Stephen Fox, Kt. Born, 1659 ; married, 1679, Elizabeth Carr, daughter of Sir William

Trollope, Bart.; died, 17 13, s. p.

This pifture was brought from Redlynch, and reprefents Mr.

Charles Fox in a white coat, with red Ihoulder-knot and cuffs ; and a bow tying the white lace cravat. Quite a young man, with long curling brown hair.

See 83, 190, 246. NORTH PASSAGE. lOI

159. Charlotte, Lady Sundon, 1736. Lady Sundon was the daughter of John Dyve, Efq. (third and youngeft Ton of Sir Lewis Dyve, and his wife Howarda (No. 112), the daughter of Sir John Strangways and Dame Grace), and married Wilham Clayton, created Lord Sundon, 1735. Lady Sundon was Woman of the Bed-chamber, and Miftrefs of the Robes to Queen CaroHne, and had a great friendfhip with Sarah, Duchefs of Marlborough. Lord

Sundon died, s. p., aged eighty, in 1756, and Lady Sundon died in 1742.

Full-length pidlure. Lady Sundon wears a pink drefs and a

blue fcarf, and points with the finger of her left hand to the right. Coat of arms with coronet, painted on corner of pidure.

160. Elizabeth Carr, Mrs. Fox. Wife of Charles Fox, Efq. Only daughter and heirefs of

Sir William Trollope of Cafewick, Lincolnfhire, Bart., by his wife, the daughter of Sir Robert Carr, Bart, of Sleaford, in the fame county. Married, 1679, Charles Fox, Efq., eldeft

furviving fon of Sir Stephen Fox, Kt. Mrs. Fox died s. p. March, 1704, aged 42.

Mrs. Fox is drelTed in this pidlure, which is oval, in a loofe blue robe, and has long dark hair. The pifture was given to William, fourth Lord Ilchefter, by Sir John Trollope, afterwards created Lord Kefteven, of Cafewick, Co. Lincoln.

LADY ILCHESTER'S SITTING ROOM.

6 UINEA A^D ADA'' . Goddard, (1873.) Favourite cheftnut hack, and retriever.

162. A Sempstress A. Lumley^EJq, (1872.)

63. Ruby Hopkins. (1876.) A favourite hunter.

64. The New Jacket . . . . . John Burr. Bought, 1875.

65. Lady Sarah Napier.

Fourth daughter of Charles, fecond Duke of Richmond, was much renowned for her beauty. She hved a great deal

at Holland Houfe, with her eldeft fifter. Lady Caroline, and Mr. Fox. George III. paid her much attention on many

occafions, and there appears to be little doubt he wifhed to

marry her, and that early in 1 761, he fent his propofals to her through Lady Sufan Fox Strangways, who was conftantly at Holland Houfe. When next the King met Lady Sarah, he LADT ILCHESrER'S SITTING ROOM. enquired if fhe had received his meffage fent through her friend, and aflured her his happinefs much depended on what fhe thought of it ? "Nothing, Sir," fhe repHed; and his Majefty turning away abruptly, replied, Nothing comes of nothing/' Later, however, when on a vifit to Lord Ilchefter at Redlynch, Lady Sarah met with an accident, being thrown from her horfe, the King made many anxious enquiries for her through Lord Holland. Her accident detained her fome weeks in the country, during which period fhe had recon- fidered the fubjed of the meflage, and fhe returned to London full of anxiety and hope as to the future. Much furprife arid difappointment was therefore occafioned when Lord Bute unexpededly announced to the Duke of Newcaftle and other minifters, in July, 1761, that the King's marriage with Princefs Charlotte of Mecklenberg Strelitz was finally arranged. Notwithftanding their mortification, both Lady Sarah Lenox and Lady Sufan Fox Strangways were bridefmaids to the Princefs when the marriage took place, in September following. (Lady Sufan's drefs worn on the occafion is ftill at Melbury.)

Horace Walpole, writing to Lady OfTory, Odtober, 178 1, fays : —" I heard at Park Place, that the Prince of Wales (afterwards George IV.) calling on Lady Cecilia Johnftone, where Lady Sarah was then ftaying on a vifit, efpecially requefted to fee her, faying, pointing to Windfor Caftle,

! ^ She was to have been up there ' and after feeing her, remarked, he wondered not at his father's great admiration, fhe was flill fo beautiful." After dechning to marry Lord Errol, fhe accepted Sir Thomas Charles Bunbury, of Barton, Sufl^olk, 1762, which marriage was difTolved by A6t of Parliament, 1776. She fubfequently married, 1781, General the Hon. George Napier, and was the mother of two illuflrious generals, Sir William

I LABT ILCHESrER'S SimNG ROOM,

and Sir Charles Napier. In advanced age Ihe TufFered much from bhndnefs. She died 1826.

Lady Sarah Napier in this pidure is turned to the left, but looks at the fpeaator, and is drefled in a fancy drefs of black, edged with pearls.

Reynolds painted Lady Sarah more than once. In a well-

known pidlure by him at Holland Houfe, fhe is drawn leaning from a window to take a dove from Lady Sufan Strangways (afterwards Lady Sufan O'Brien), whilft Charles James Fox, aged fourteen, ftands by. There are alfo pidures of her at Barton; alfo one of Lady Sufan.

166. Lady Susan Fox Strangways. Crayon Figure, by Catherine Read. (d. 1786.)

Eldeft daughter of Stephen, firft Earl of Ilchefter. Married, 1764, William O'Brien, Efq., who had been an ador, and who fhe had met occafionally at Holland Houfe, where were frequently given theatrical entertainments, in which the

younger members of the family took parts. Walpole fays,

going one day to give Mifs Read a fitting for her pidlure, Lady Sufan took the opportunity ofjoining Mr. O'Brien and being married to him in St. Paul's Church, Covent Garden, a church then much frequented, thus naturally incurring the

extreme difapprobation of her parents, and all the members of her family. Through the intereft of Lord Holland, Mr. O'Brien fubfequently obtained fome employment in America, and he and Lady Sufan remained there fome years. On their return to England they lived for fome years at Winterflow, near Salifbury, where her coufm, the Hon. Stephen Fox, eldeft fon of Lord Holland, refided, being in pofTefTion of a property at Weil Winterflow bought before 1767, from the Rev. Dr. Thiftlethwayte. He had married, 1766, Mary, daughter of John, Earl of Upper OfTory. On io8 LABT ILCHESTER'S SITriNG ROOM,

January 8th, 1774, at the clofe of the Chriftmas hohdays, Charles James Fox, Mr. Fitzpatrick, and fome of their friends, men of pofition and talent, had aded in a temporary theatre at Winterflow Houfe, " The Fair Penitent " and High Life Below Stairs," and Mr. Fox a6led in both pieces

moft brilliantly, but by fome mifadventure a fire occurred, and the fine old houfe was burned to the ground before the

morning. Lord Holland died at Holland Houfe, ift July, 1774, aged fixty-nine, and Caroline, Lady Holland, followed him to the grave twenty-three days afterwards, aged fifty-two. Their eldeft fon, Stephen, born 1744, fucceeded as fecond Lord Holland, but only lived a few months, and died, December, 1774, leaving, by the kindlinefs of his difpofition, and his talents, a memory much cherifhed by his family. He was fucceeded by his only fon, Henry Richard, born 1773, at Winterflow, and the houfe was rebuilt there by his mother, Mary, Lady Holland, and his guardians. Lady Holland

died 1778, and the third Lord Holland refided very little at

Winterflow Houfe, Towards the end of the century it was pulled down, and the Winterflow property has been fold fince

the death of Henry Edward, fourth and lafl: Lord Holland, in 1859. Mr. and Lady Sufan O'Brien lived for many years fubfequently at Stinsford, near Dorchefl:er, where he died in

1 81 5, aged feventy-feven, and Lady Sufan died, aged eighty- three, in 1827, and there both are buried.

In this piflure Lady Sufan's figure is turned to the right, and

fhe is dreffed in white fatin. Cloak edged with fur, and a black beaver hat. Cap tied with pink ribbons under the hat. Her little dog Fop " on her lap.

See 29, 42, 128.

167. Picture by Callow (bought, 1875).

168. Picture by Callow (bought, 1875). LABT ILCHESTER'S SITTING ROOM, 109

169. Picture by Callow (bought, 1875).

170. Picture by Callow (bought, 1875).

1^ 171. Sarah Jane, Mrs. Gartshore. . , Crayon Figure.

Wife of William Gartfhore, Efq., one of the Lords CommifTioners of the Admiralty, M.P. for Weymouth. Mrs. Gartfhore died Auguft 9th, 1803, aged thirty-fix.

Drefled entirely in white. Hair in curls and powdered. White ribbon and bow. Looks to left.

The eftate of Gartfhore, in Dumbartonfhire, has now devolved on John Murray, fecond fon of Sir Patrick Murray of Ochtertyre, born 1 804, who has additionally afTumed the name of Gartfhore.

172. The Hon. Charles James Fox, as a little Boy.

' ' Sir Jojhua Reynolds^ 1723- 1792.

Second furviving fon of the firfl Lord Holland. Born 1 749. M.P. for Midhurfl, 1768, as a fupporter of the Duke of Grafton's adminiflration. Lord of the Admiralty in Lord North's Government, 1770-72, of the Treafury, 1773-74. In oppofition to the Lord North during American War ;

M.P. for Weflminfler in 1780 ; Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the CoaUtion Miniflry, 1783 ; refigned on the defeat of the India Bill, 1783, and headed the oppofition to Pitt's Miniflry. He married Elizabeth Bridget, widow of Mr. Armiflead, in 1794. Mr. Fox withdrew from Parliament in 1797, but was M.P. again for Weflminfler, 1802. On Pitt's

death in 1 806, he became Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in Lord Grenville's adminiflration, and died September 13th,

1 806, at Chifwick Houfe, where he had been removed a fhort time previoufly for the benefit of his health. I lO LABT ILCHESrER'S SimNG ROOM.

This pifture was bought by Lord Ilchefter in 1874, at Lady

Dimfdale's fale. Oval within fquare. Charles James Fox is

drefled in a white frock with fhort fleeves and a pink fafh ; figure turned to left.

173. The Broken Pitcher ^enkate.

Bought in the Royal Academy in 1 875.

174. The Duchess of Kingston.

{Crayon Figure by J, S, Liotard^ 1702- 17 90.) EHzabeth^ daughter of Colonel Thomas Chudleigh, fecond Ton of Sir George Chudleigh, of Afhton, in Devon, third

baronet, died 17 19. Colonel Chudleigh was Governor of Chelfea Hofpital, and at the requeft of Mr. Pulteney, his daughter was appointed Maid of Honour to the Princefs of Wales, mother of George III. PofTefled of talents, wit, and beauty, Mifs Chudleigh had many admirers. She privately married, 1744, the Hon. Auguftus John Hervey, when he v/as only twenty years of age, fecond fon of Lord and Lady

Hervey, and grandfon of the firft Earl of Briftol. A very few years after their marriage, 1747, and foon after the birth of a fon who did not long furvive, they agreed to feparate. Being defirous of having her marriage entirely diflblved, fhe

went to Launcefton, where it had taken place, and having afked for a fight of the regifter, fhe tore the leaf out on which

it was regiftered. In 1759 health of Captain Hervey's

elder brother, the fecond Earl of Briftol, feemed to fail, which might leave an opening for the fuccefiion of her hufband, and

fhe then thought it better to re-adjuft the proofs of her marriage, and fhe contrived to perfuade the clergyman, Mr. Amis, who had performed the ceremony, to make a frefh entry in the ufual form in the regifler in her prefence. Lord Briftol, however, recovering, the regiiler was for the time 1

LADT ILCHESrER'S SITriNG ROOM. 1 1 being not enquired for. A few years later, the Duke of Kingfton wifhing to marry her, fhe contrived to get fome form of legal feparation carried out during SefTions, which at the time was thought fufficient to bar any claims of her hufband's in the future, and fhe married the Duke of Kingfton publicly at St. George's Church, Hanover Square, in 1769. The Duke died in 1773, leaving the Duchefs the life intereft in all his eftates, with remainder to his nephew, who having confidered himfelf his immediate heir, felt much refentment, and inftituted a fuit at law againft her for bigamy, as having been divorced by an incompetent tribunal. She was then impeached in the Houfe of Lords, and the trial commenced 15th April, 1776, in Weftminfter Hall, which was thronged, even the Queen attending. After an inveftiga- tion which lafted five days, the Peers found her guilty; the Duke of Newcaftle only excepted, faid, " She was guilty erroneoufly, not intentionally." The privilege of her peerage was fo far allowed her, that fhe was difcharged on paying all fees, without the punifhment of being branded in the hand by an iron, which had been awarded to her. She inftantly left England to avoid being detained by her profecutors, who wifhed to deprive her of her fortune, and crofTed at night in an open boat to Calais. She bought large landed property in

France, and fpent all her income in the moft recklefs and extravagant manner. She died at her feat at Fontainebleau, 1788. Her hufband. Captain Hervey, attained the rank of Vice-Admiral of the Blue, and became third Earl of Briftol, 1775, on the death of his brother. He died in 1779.

The Duchefs wears in this pidure a fawn-coloured drefs, and bodice laced with coral colour. Under-bodice and fleeves trimmed with blue and white. A blue ribbon and crofs round her neck, and a blue ribbon round her waift. Hair tied with

coral colour. She is fitting down reading a letter, her face nearly

in profile. )

112 LADT ILCHESTER'S SITTING ROOM.

There is a fmall duplicate of this pidlure in the Royal

Gallery at Drefden, which is called " La belle Lyonnaife."

It having been fuggefted that this pi6lure is not really the portrait of the Duchefs of Kingfton, owing to a print being

extant called " Mifs Lewis," which is extremely fimilar, the following account may be ufeful in fhowing how diredlly from the Chudleigh family the portrait pafled into the poffeflion of

the Earl of Ilchefter.

The Duchefs of Kingfton s brother, Sir Thomas Chudleigh, fifth baronet, dying unmarried, was fucceeded by a coufin as fixth baronet. Sir George Chudleigh of Chalmington. He died, aged eighteen, at the fiege of Oftend, in 1745, having diftinguiftied himfelf by his bravery, and the title became

extindt; but the property pafled to his only fifter Sufanna, married to the Rev. N. Haynes, and their fon Hugh inherited the Chalmington property. Their eldeft daughter Jane married the Hon. and Rev. Charles Strangways, fon of the

firft Lord Ilchefter, and Elizabeth, the fecond daughter,

married Lord Afton and died s. p. 1833. Charles Strangways' daughters inherited Chudleigh pofleflions from their mother, and alfo from their aunt, Lady Afton, and gave this pi6lure, and alfo a bracelet containing a miniature portrait,

in all details fimilar, to Henry Stephen, the third Earl of

llchefter.

175. Landscape with Water and Figures.

F, Zuccarelli. ( 702 - 7 8 8 1 1 . Probably an early pidliire of Zuccarelli's. His pidures are generally diftinguiftied by a figure carrying a jug in the form of a gourd, as may be feen in this pidure. #\jy» r^u> *\jfi^ <^JV• %BU'' 'UBt" "VB^^ "Vlk^ 'V!''^

LADY ILCHESTER'S ROOM.

176. Miss (Susanna) Strangways.

|LDEST furviving daughter of Thomas Strang- p . ways, Sen., Efq. Born married, 1690 ; 1713^ (^2, Thomas Horner, Efq., of Mells Park, Somer- fetfhire, and on the death of her brother, 1726, affumed additionally the name of

Strangways. Mr. and Mrs. Strangways Horner left an only

child, Elizabeth, who afterwards became the firft Countefs

of Ilchefter, and on her mother s death fucceeded to all the property of this branch of the Strangways' family. Mrs. Strangways Horner died in 1758.

Figure (landing turned to left. Mifs Strangways wears a yellow

drefs with white fleeves ; blue drapery. She holds a dove in her hand. Landfcape.

See 29, 31, 119, 137, 204, 239, 240.

177. A Peacock, and other Birds. Melchior de Hondecooter. (1636-1695.)

Melchior de Hondecooter was a mofi: diftinguifhed Dutch painter. After the death of his father, Gyfbrecht Hondecooter,

in 1653, he became the pupil of his uncle, J. B. Weenix. This pidure was bought by Lord Ilchefter in 1875. ii6 LADT ILCHESTER'S ROOM,

178. Henry Thomas, Lord Stavordale, as a little Boy.

Born, married, Therefa Grady fecondly, 1747 ; 1772, Mary ; Maria Digby, 1794; fucceeded his father, as fecond Earl of Ilchefter, 1776, and to his mother's properties in 1792; died 1802.

Sitting down, wears a blue mantle trimmed with white fur.

See 29, 64, 89, 195.

179. Miss (Elizabeth) Strangways, H . WKM Second furviving daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Strang- ways,Sen. Born, 1696; married James, fifth Duke of Hamilton and fecond Duke of Brandon, in 1726 or 1727; and died, 1729.

Mifs Strangways is turned to the left but looks at fpeftator, and reclines on a bank under a tree, feeding a lamb. DrelTed in a pale buff drefs much covered with lilac or mauve drapery. Landfcape in background.

See 93, III, 137,

180. Henry Stephen, Lord Stavordale , . . Chandler,

Afterwards third Earl of Ilchefter, Born, 1787; married Caroline Leonora, daughter of the Right Rev. the Lord

George Murray, in 1812 ; died, January, 1858.

This pidure was brought from Abbotfbury, 1873, and reprefents Lord Stavordale in a blue jacket with large falling collar, and a buff waiftcoat.

See 59,

181. Mrs, Colebrooke , , , . » 7- Echart,

Henrietta, eldeft daughter of Lord Harry Paulet, who fucceeded his brother as fourth Duke of Bohon, Auguft, 1754. She married, 1741, Mr. (afterwards Sir Robert) Colebrooke, of Childham Caftle, Kent, a great diplomatift. Mrs. Cole-

brooke is mentioned by Horace Walpole as being one of the LABT ILCHESTER'S ROOM, 117 prettieft women at a great ball given in November, 1741, by Sir Thomas Robinfon, of Rokeby, where alfo reigned as beauties the Duke of Richmond's two elder daughters, Caroline, afterwards Lady Holland, and Emilia Jane, who married, 1746, James, twentieth Earl of Leinfter, afterwards created Marquis of Kildare and Duke of Leinfter in 1766.

Her fifter. Lady Catherine, married William Afhe, Efq. ; and fecondly. Sir Adam Drummond, of Megginch, in Perthfhire, where there is a pidlure of Elizabeth, firft Countefs of Ilchefter, drefled much in the fame ftyle as Mrs. Colebrooke in this portrait. Lady Henrietta Colebrooke died 1754, and Sir Robert married, fecondly, 1756, Elizabeth, the daughter and co-heir of John Threftier, Efq., of Bradford, Wilts, and died in France, 1784.

Mrs. Colebrooke is in this pifture drefled in black, with white muflin bodice under the fquare body, and a lace cap. Her arms

are croflTed one within the other, and flie looks at fpeftator.

Echardt came to England in 1740, when he became a pupil employed as a portrait of J. B. Vanloo, and was much painter, about the time that Sir Joftiua Reynolds returned

from Italy.

GREEN ROOM

GREEN ROOM. i8a. Mrs. Giles Strangways.

^USANNA, daughter and co-heir with her fifter (the wife of Sir Rowland Ly tton, of Knebworth, Herts), of Thomas Edwards, Efq., of Fayre

Crooch, near Wadhurft ; married. Colonel Giles Strangways, 1635; 1682. Mrs. Strangways wears a pale yellow drefs, and the fame pearl necklace and earrings of three large pear-fliaped pearls, which (he wears in the pidure in the entrance hall, No. 81, alfo in the

miniature, No. 29. Landfcape. Mrs. Strangways is feated and turns to the left. See 29, 81.

183. Lady Harriot Christian Fox Strangways.

Fifth daughter of Stephen, firft Earl of Ilchefter. Born January 3rd, 1750. She married Colonel Acland, eldeft fon

of Sir Thomas Acland, Bart., 1770. Colonel Acland was ( <3U i ordered with his regiment to Canada, at the beginning of the year 1776, and Lady Harriot accompanied him; and on Colonel Acland being wounded and taken prifoner in the unfortunate engagement at Saratoga between General Bur- goyne and General Gates, 1777, Lady Harriot entreated General Burgoyne to furnifh her with the means of joining R ;

122 GREEN ROOM.

her wounded hufband in the enemy's camp. General Bur- goyne urged upon her in vain his doubts how fhe might be

received by the vidlorious enemy ; but finding her refolute, he yielded to her wifhes, and defired fhe might be furnifhed with an open boat, and with two fervants and Mr. Brudenell

fhe rowed down the River Hudfon, expofed to fire from the

enemy, in order to do fo. The night was cold and dreary,

and Lady Harriot and her companions pafTed the hours till

daylight in the open boat, under the very rifles of the

American outpofts, who were probably intending to fire upon

them at the firft doubtful movement. After a night of almofl intolerable fuffering, they were brought before General Gates, who treated her with the greateft kindnefs, and upon learning the objedl of her wifhes gave her a fafe condud to her hufband.

In the Diary of the American Revolution, quoted in JefTe's

" Memoirs of George III.," it is mentioned that General Gates, in a letter to his wife written from Albany, three days after Burgoyne's furrender (Od. i6th, 1777), makes fome rather intereiling allufions to his prifoners : — I got here the night before lafl, and the army are now encamped on the heights.

Major-General Phillips is now my prifoner, with Lord Peter- fham. Major Acland (fon of Sir Thomas) and his lady, the

daughter of Lord Ilchefler, fifler to the famous Lady Sufan alfo about a dozen members of Parliament, Scotch lords, &c.

I hope Lady Harriot will be here when you arrive. She is

the mofl: amiable, delicate little piece of quality you ever

beheld. Her hufband is one of the prettieft fellows I have

feen ; learned, fenfible, and an Rnglifhman. He has been a

confounded Tory, but I hope to make him as good a Whig as myfelf " Colonel Acland died in 1778, leaving one fon and one daughter. The fon Hved to fucceed to his grandfather, Sir Thomas Acland, but died the fame year (1785). His GREEN ROOM. 123

fifter (who inherited a portion of his eftates) married Lord Porchefter (afterwards fecond Earl of Carnarvon) in 1796, and died in 18 13. Lady Harriot died at Tetton in Somerfet- fhire, 18 15.

Lady Harriot Strangways is in this pidure reprefented as quite

young, drefled in blue and black, with a blue hat and a blue ribbon round her throat. ^ ^- See 200.

184. Miss Strangways Horner.

Daughter of Thomas Strangways Horner, Efq., and of Sufanna his wife. Born, 1723. She was the only furviving child, and married, in 1736, Stephen Fox (afterwards firft Earl of Ilchefter), and died in 1792.

Figure turned to the right, flie looks nearly ftraightforward.

Mifs Strangways Horner has fair hair with a flower in it, and dark eyes; drefl'ed in a white drefs with a drapery of pink, on which

fome flowers are lying. She is feated on the ground. Landfcape in the background. See 29, 34,41, 87, 184, 240, 253. C^v^-f ^^"^185. Lady Lucy Fox Strangways.

Second furviving daughter of Stephen, firft Earl of

Ilchefter. Born, 1748; married, 177 1, her coufin, the Honour- able Stephen Digby (mentioned by Madame D'Arblay, in her Memoirs, by the name of " Fairly,*' becaufe he faid he liked to argue a fubjedt fairly). Lady Lucy Digby died in 1787, and her huft)and re-married, in 1790, Charlotte Margaret, eldeft daughter of Sir Robert Gunning, niece of the beautiful Mifs Gunnings.

Lady Lucy is reprefented quite young, drefled in a white muflin frock fprigged in pale pink, and pink ribbons. She looks ^'>>^'^i See .9.

ELLIPTIC ROOM AND DRESSING ROOM.

ELLIPTIC ROOM AND DRESSING ROOM. ELLIPTIC ROOM.

1 86. A Man*s Portrait wearing a Turban. |AINTED by the Rev. Townfend Selwyn, Canon of Gloucefter and Redor of Silverton.

The Rev. Townfend Selwyn married, 1 8 1 2, Charlotte, the eldeft fifter of Carohne Leonora, wife of Henry Stephen, third Earl of Ilchefter, fecond daughter of the Right Rev. the Lord George Murray,

Bifhop of St. David's.

^' ' ^^"^ /^'hytX- /^vo ti^-)/ 187. Stephen Fox. ^-f- Eldeft fon of Sir Stephen Fox, Kt. Born in France, and died there, 1669.

Figure turned to the right, but he looks to left. Three- quarter length pi6lure. Mr. S. Fox wears a drefs embroidered with gold and many colours. White full fleeves from elbow to wrift, where they are tied with red bows. Red flioulder-knot, and a red bow with lace ends forming his necktie. Helmet and plume of white feathers by his fide, to which he points.

188. Mrs. Ayliffe.

Judith, fecond daughter of Colonel Giles Strangways, married George AyhfFe, Efq., of Grittenham, Wilts, 1665. Born, 1640; died, 17 16. 128 ELLIPTIC ROOM.

This pifture reprefents Mrs. AylilFe drelTed in deep mourning, and muft have been painted fubfequent to the death of her hufband in 171 2. Black drefs, white cap, collar and cufFs of muflin. Sitting down, facing fpeftator, her head rather inclined to

the left. A large fquare piflure. See 212.

It is faid Mrs. AylifFe always ufed china fervices entirely black after her hufband's death, and there are fome black cups and faucers at Melbury, the remains of a tea-fet belonging to her.

189. William Fox . . . Mary Beak, (i 632-1 697.)

Fourth fon of Sir Stephen Fox, Kt. Born, 1662 ; died, "^^^ 1680. •^l"^24l'

Drefled in brown filk loofe robe and white lace necktie. Looks to right. Pifture, oval, enclofed in a painted ftone border in a fquare frame. See 127.

190. Charles Fox, Escu

Second, but eldeft furviving, fon of Sir Stephen Fox, Kt.

Born, 1659; J^arried, 1679; ^ii^d, s. p., 1713.

This pidure came from Redlynch, 1873, and reprefents Mr. Charles Fox, Handing. Figure turned to right, but looking at fpeftator. Drefled in brown with flowing drapery of red. Large white fleeve gathered in to wrift. Long curling hair.

See 83, 158, 246.

191. Landscape.

Building to left, water and trees to right. Hills in the diftance, and the figure of a woman in the foreground.

r DRESSING ROOM TO ELLIPTIC ROOM. 129

DRESSING ROOM TO ELLIPTIC ROOM.

CLandscape with Rocks, Trees, &c. 192. < Small Picture of a Dead Woodcock.

193. Three Views of Sea and Ships.

194. Head of a Woman.

Fair hair. White drefs and head-drefs.

£±±Jl±X±±±±±±±±±±±±±±X TTTfTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTr NORTH CORNER ROOM.

NORTH CORNER ROOM.

195. Henry Thomas, second Earl of Ilchester.

ORN, 1747. Married Mary Therefa Grady, daughter of Standifh Grady, Efq., of Caper- cullen. County of Limerick, 1772. She died in 1790, and Lord Ilchefter married fecondJy, 1794, Maria, daughter of the Hon. WiUiam Digby, Dean of Durham. He died at Buxton, September, 1802, leaving one fon, Henry Stephen, afterwards third Earl

of Ilchefter, and five daughters by his firft marriage, and three fons by the fecond marriage, namely, William Thomas Horner, fourth Earl of Ilchefter, born, 1795, died, 1865; Giles Digby,

born, 1798, died, 1 827 ; and John George Charles, born Feb-

ruary, 1 803, five months after the death of his father, and died,

September, 1859. In 1 802, Lord Ilchefter removed the north- eaft wing of the houfe at Melbury, very much improving the

appearance of the houfe, as alfo the view from it, by fo doing. The eaftern approach, as figured in Hutchins* Hiftory of Dorfet," pubHfhed 1774, had been previoufly altered, the ground being raifed along the eaft front, and the flight of fteps from the Saloon door (then the principal entrance) removed. 134 NORTH CORNER ROOM.

In this pi6lure, formerly at Abbotlbury, Lord Ilchefter wears a

dark blue coat with gilt buttons, and powdered hair. His figure

is turned to right.

See 29, 64, 89, 178.

196. Mary Theresa, Lady Stavordale, with her eldeft daughter,

EHzabeth Therefa (No. 134). Lady Stavordale married, 1772; became fecond Countefs

of Ilchefter, 1776 ; and died in 1790.

This pidlure was copied by Mifs Selwyn from an extremely well-painted portrait of Lady Stavordale (original fuppofed to be by Sir Jolhua Reynolds) in the poffelTion of Mr. Graves of Gloucefter, in 1852 (Mr. Graves being a relative of the Gradys

of Capercullen). Lady Stavordale is drefled in white, with a large white pearl drop ornament, and holds the child in her arms. Figure turned to right. See 29, 61.

197. Mrs. Thomas Strangways, Sen. Sufanna, daughter of John Ridout, Efq. Married Mr. Strangways, 1674; died at Milton, 1718.

A very fmall pifture, reprefenting Mrs. Thomas Strangways,

Sen., in deep mourning ; probably painted after her hufband's death, in 171 3. Her left arm refts on a pedeftal. See 36, 100, 137, 149, 216.

198. Copy from an original pidlure by Salvator Rofa, at Stourhead, by the Rev. Townfend Selwyn, Redlor of Silverton.

199. The Hon. Juliana Judith Fox.

Third daughter of Stephen, Lord Ilchefter. Born, 1745 ; died, 1749.

Drefled in a white frock and low body. Light blue drapery folded careleflly on flioulder. Dark hair, and a white cap falling at the back of her head. Looking to right. Crayon pifture. NORTH CORNER ROOM,

100. Lady Harriot Christian Fox Strangways.

Fifth, but third furviving daughter of Stephen, firft Earl of Ilchefter, as a child. Born, January, 1750; married, 1770, Colonel Dyke Acland, who died, 1778. Henrietta, Mrs. Colebrooke (No. 181), was godmother to Lady Harriot, who, although baptized by the names of Chriftian Henrietta Caroline, was always called " Harriot." She furvived both

her children and died in 18 15.

A crayon pidure, reprefenting Lady Harriot turned to the left, looking at the fpeflator. She wears a fancy drefs. Loofe blue jacket, open in front, fhowing a cream-white veft, buttoned at throat. A cloth cap on her head, embroidered with flowers,

from which defcend rows of pearls. She is very fair, and has

light hair. There is a fine pifture of Lady Harriot, at Killer- ton, near Exeter, belonging to Sir Thomas Acland, painted in 1770, by Sir Jofliua Reynolds. See 29, 183.

201. Charles Spencer, fifth Earl of Sunderland, and ^ SECOND Duke of Marlborough.

Second fon of Charles, third Earl of Sunderland, the diftinguifhed ftatefman, and Anne, younger daughter of John, fecond wife, who died, 1716. firft Duke of Marlborough, his <^ fucceeded Charles, Earl of Sunderland, was born ini 706 ; and his elder brother, Robert, fourth Earl, in 1729; and to the his aunt, titles of his illuftrious grandfather, on the death of by a the Countefs of Godolphin, Duchefs of Marlborough, married, fpecial Ad of Parliament, in 1733. He 1732, Elizabeth, the daughter of Thomas, Lord Trevor. In 1744, of Marl- on the death of his grandmother, Sarah, Duchefs borough, he fucceeded to the eftates of his grandfather, the Sarah, Duchefs of Marl- firft Duke. A great portion of — —

NORTH CORNER ROOM. borough's wealth, was left by her to her younger grandfon, the Hon. John Spencer, who fhe greatly preferred. Henry Fox, writing to his brother. Lord Ilchefter, Odober 23,1 744, fays : " Dear Ste,

" On the other fide is all the Truth I can yet learn concerning the Dfs of Marlb' Will. Reckoning what Mr. Spencer inherits at 600,000^, and other perfonal Eftate at upwards of 100,000^ more, and her Legacys at as much

more. She is dead worth between 8 and 900,000;^. I thought

fhe had more. The Duke's greateft obligation to her is that She did not recover, which he told me to day fhe moft

probably would, if fhe had been governable in fome triffles.

I am tir d with writing. " Your's ever " H. F."

After giving a lift of many legacies, annuities, and reverfions, he adds ; " To the Duke of Marlbro' all the Pi6tures and Furniture

at Blenheim which fhe faid fhe had, but had no fhare in.

" To Mr. Spencer all the reft of her Eftate real and perfonal, and after him to his Son, and in cafe Mr. Spencer dy's with-

out Children, a power to difpofe of between 5 and 6,000^^ a year.

" What fhe has left Mr. Spencer, Land, and Money will bring in i8,ooO;^ a year. Rent Charge.'' Charles, fecond Duke of Marlborough, attained high military honour, and was a Brigadier-General in command of a Brigade of Guards at the battle of Dettingen in 1743, where he obtained much diftindion. He was Lord Lieutenant of the counties of Oxford and Buckingham, 1738, and was inftalled a Knight of the Garter in 1741. He was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Britifh forces intended to ferve in Germany under Prince Ferdinand of Brunfwick, 1758, and NORTH CORNER ROOM. 137 died of fever the fame year, at Munfter, in Weftphalia. He was fucceeded by his fon, George, as third Duke.

This pifture was brought from Redlynch, and reprefents Lord

Sunderland (1730) looking to right, but facing fpedator ; a coronet is placed on a table, on which he refts his right hand. He wears robes, with long white ftockings, and yellow flioes. Small pidlure, reprefenting Lord Sunderland ftanding and full- length. See 40.

STONE STAIRS AND "HALF BASE HEAD,"

PANTRY, SADDLE ROOM, &c.

STONE STAIRS AND "HALF BASE HEAD."

202. Miss Judith Strangways. HIRD and youngeft daughter of Thomas Strangways, Sen., Efq., and Sufanna his wife.

Born, 1698 ; died, 1722.

Mifs Judith Strangways wears a blue drefs, with white ribbon tied in a bow round her waift, and a parrot by her fide. Full-length pidure. See 98, 208.

203. John Strangways, Esq^

Third Ton of Thomas Strangways, Sen., Efq. Born, 1687 ; died, 17 16.

See 75, 137.

204. Mrs. Strangways Horner. Wife of Thomas Horner, of Mells. Born, 1690; married,

1713 ; died, 1758. See 29, 31, 119, 137. 176, 239' 24°-

205. Leda and the Swan. This pidure was removed from the Dining-room, when the had yellow damafk was hung there, in 1873. The pidure the room. been fitted into an oak doorway in the centre of 142 STONE STAIRS.

between the two fireplaces, and behind the paper. The Dining-room was formerly the principal entrance hall of the houfe.

206. Miss Judith Ayliffe.

The laft furviving daughter and heirefs of George AylifFe, Efq., of Grittenham, Wilts, and Judith, fecond daughter of Colonel Giles Strangways. She died, 1747. Mifs AylilFe wears a blue drefs. Full-length pifture.

PANTRY.

207. Colonel Giles Strangways.

of Sir Strangways. Born, 1 ON John 6 1 5 ; married, 1635; died, 1675.

See 29, 72, 109.

208. Miss Judith Strangways. Youngeft daughter of Thomas Strangways, Sen., Efq.

Born, 1698 ; died, 1722. Narrow full-length pidure. See 98, 202.

209. James, Duke of Hamilton and Brandon. DupUcate pidure.

See 1 10.

^ 210. John Ridout, Esq^ Father of Mrs. Thomas Strangways, Sen. ;

PANTRT. 143

211. Thomas Strangways, Jun., Esc^ Born, married, 1682; 1710; died, s. p., 1726. Sec 74, 90, 137.

212. Mrs. Ayliffe.

The fecond daughter of Colonel Giles Strangways, and wife of George Ayliffe, Efq., of Grittenham, Wilts. Born, 1640 died, 17 16.

Small oval portrait. See 188.

213. Portrait. (Name unknown.) Three-quarter length.

214. Small Portrait. (Name unknown.)

215. Dame Judith Strangways. Second wife of Sir John Strangways, Kt. Daughter of

Francis Throckmorton, Efq. (died 15 14), and Judith his wife, daughter of Richard Tracie of Stanway, by Barbara Lucie of Charlecot, in Warwickfhire. Widow of Thomas Edwards, Efq., of Fayre Crooch, near Wadhurft. She married Sir John Strangways in the church at Melbury, Sampford, 1653. Her daughter Sufanna had married (1635) Colonel Giles Strangways, fon of Sir John Strangways.

216. Mrs. Thomas Strangways, Sen. Daughter of John Ridout, Efq. Married, 1674; died, 1718. Oval pifture in a fquare frame.

Sec 36, 100, 137, 149, 197. 144 SADDLE ROOM.

SADDLE ROOM.

No. 217 has been removed, and follows No. 141.

218. Oil Painting of Grey Horse. JV, Davis. (18 18.)

219. Spotted Dog.

220. Bay Horse with White Face.

221. Chesnut Horse.

222. Grey Hunter from Yorkshire. W. W, Davis. (18 18.)

223. Grey Horse.

224. Brown Horse.

225. A Print of Three Dogs, from an original pidure in the

colledlion of J, W. Steers, Efq.

226. Print of a Spotted Dog.

227. Going to Cover. k

228. Breaking Cover.

229. Stopping Hounds Leaving.

230. Running in View.

231. At Fault.

232. The Death. ^

233. A Brown Horse standing i N Stables. HARNESS ROOM.

PASSAGE LEADING TO SADDLE ROOM.

234. Oil Painting of Puppies and their Mother. Painted by W. W, 'Davis, (18 18.) The mother was given to Lord Ilchefter by Sir Robert Frankland Ruflel, of Thirkleby.

235. Mr. Farquharson's Huntsman and Two Hounds.

236. A Fox Running.

HARNESS ROOM.

237. Grey Horse. Oil painting.

238. A Brown Horse.

ISiif ^f8}§4 0§4 e§t ^ IS§§^ lgi§^ ^^^^ 1©^

PICTURES AT REDLYNCH HOUSE.

REDLYNCH HOUSE.

BILLIARD ROOM. "''LlA.---yiCZ^-^

239. Mrs. Strangways Horner. ,

USANNA, eldeft furviving daughter of Thomas

Strangways, Sen born, 1 ; married Thomas ^ rf . ; 6 90 ^ Horner, Efq., of Mells, 17 13; died, 1758, leaving one daughter, Elizabeth, wife ofStephen,

firft Earl of Ilchefter.

Mrs. Strangways Horner wears fandals in this pifture, and fhe

is reprefented fitting on the fea-fhore, with two mermaids at her feet.

See 29, 31, 119, 137, 176, 204, 240.

ANTE-ROOM TO SOUTH-WEST BEDROOM.

240. Mrs. Strangways Horner and her Daughter.

A very large piAure without a frame. She holds a branch of

flowers to her daughter (who is reprefented quite young). A fpaniel near.

See 29, 31, 119, 137, 176, 204, 239. PICTURES AT REDLTNCH HOUSE.

DINING ROOM IN THE WING.

241. Sir Stephen Fox, Kt.

CRN, 1627, and died in his ninetieth year, Sept. 23rd, 17 16. Buried in Farley Church, near Salifbury. Sir Stephen having loyally followed the fortunes

of the Stuarts at home and abroad, Charles II. after the Reftoration rewarded his faithful fervices by giving him many lucrative employments (fee No. 62). In 1670 he

bought Redlynch from the Fitzjames family, to whom it had pafTed by marriage with a Draycott, that family having been

fettled there at the time of Edward I. and previoufly. Sir Stephen Fox built the prefent manfion at Redlynch, but the refidence of the Fitzjames's, with a chapel attached, was not entirely removed before 1740, about which period the prefent chapel was built. Of this family of Fitzjames there were men eminent both in Church and State, in the reign of Henry

VI 11. At a rather later date a younger branch of the fame family were in pofTeflion of, and refided at Lewifton in

Dorfetfhire, and their coat of arms is ftill to be feen with many others, in the old ftained glafs placed in various windows of the houfe at Melbury. Az., a dolphin embowed arg., between three mullets pierced gu.

See 62, 73, 350.

242. Elizabeth, Lady Fox. I^Xv^^ Elizabeth, daughter of William Whittle, Efq., of Lin- colnfhire. Born, 1627; married Sir Stephen Fox about DINING ROOM IN THE WING, 151

1650; died, 1696. In 1694, a fpecial coat of arms was granted to Lady Fox, namely, gules, a chevron ermine, between three Talbots' Heads erafed, or.

Lady Fox wears a brown fatin drefs, blue fcarf, pearl necklace and earrings.

243. Christian, Lady Fox . . Enoch Zeeman. (d. 1744.)

Second wife of Sir Stephen Fox, Kt. Born, 1677 ; married, 1703; died, 17 19. She was the daughter of the Rev. Ffrancis Hope, who was redor of Hazeby, Lincoln- fhire, from 1670 to 1678. The regifter at Hazeby chronicles Chriftian Hope's baptifm on Odober 12th, 1677; alfo that fhe benefited the parifh in later days, by a gift of filver gilt Communion plate, and inverted ^^50 in land in the parifh of

Wytoft, which in 18 51, brought in an income of ^^7 per annum.

Lady Fox is reprefented fitting. She wears a pink drefs with

a blue fcarf. See 101.

244. Elizabeth, Lady Cornwallis.

Eldeft daughter of Sir Stephen Fox, Kt. Born, 1656; married, 1673, Charles, third Lord Cornwallis, who after her

death in 1 68^, married fecondly, Anne, Duchefs of Monmouth and Buccleugh, widow of James, Duke of Monmouth.

Lady Cornwallis is reprefented fitting down, wearing a yellow drefs and blue fcarf. She perfonates a fhepherdefs, and has a crook in her hand, and a lamb by her fide. See 121, 249. ;

152 PICTURES AT REDLTNCH HOUSE,

245. Jane, Countess of Northampton. Mary Beak, (i 632-1 697.)

Youngeft daughter, by his firft marriage, of Sir Stephen

Fox, Kt., born 1669 ; married in 1686, George, fourth Earl of

Northampton, and died, 1721. ' ?)yc Qj)

Lady Northampton is reprefented fitting down, with an arrow in her hand, and careffing a dog. See 116.

246. Charles Fox, Escu

Second fon of Sir Stephen Fox, Kt. ; born, 1659; married Ehzabeth Carr, daughter of Sir William TroUope, Bart.

died, s. p., 17 13.

Mr. Fox is reprefented in this pidure as an older man than in his other portraits. He wears a red coat or cloak. See 83, 158, 190.

CHINA ROOM.

247. Dr. Wigan, M.D. . . Cornelius Janjfen. (d. 1665.)

|ORNELlUS JANSSEN came to England in

1618, and was much employed by James I. He returned to Holland in 1648, and died in 1665.

248. Charles, Lord Cornwallis.

Married the eldeft daughter of Sir Stephen Fox, 1673, by

whom he had four fons, who all died unmarried, except Charles, his eldeft fon, who alone furvived him. He was CHINA ROOM. I S3

confidered one of the moft accomplifhed gentlemen of the

age, but greatly diminifhed his fortune by his extravagance. After the death of EHzabeth, Lady Cornwallis, he married, in 1688, the widow of the Duke of Monmouth, Duchefs of Buccleugh in her own right, and by her he had one fon. Lord G. Scott, and two daughters, Lady Anne and Lady Ifabella Scott. Lord CornwalHs died in 1698.

249. Elizabeth, Lady Cornwallis. Eldeft daughter of Sir Stephen Fox, Kt. Born, 1656; married Charles, third Lord Cornwallis, 1673, and died, 1680.. 248 and 249 are two very fmall pidures. See 121, 244.

NORTH BEDROOM.

250. Sir George Onesiphorus Paul, Bart. IS father. Sir Onefiphorus Paul, of Rodborough,

Gloucefterfhire, was created firft baronet, 1762, and this baronetcy expired with his fon. Sir George, December, 1820.

BLUE BEDROOM.

^ 251. Henry Fox, first Lord Holland. |ECOND fon of Sir Stephen Fox, Kt., by his married, fecond marriage. Born, 1705 ; 1744, Caroline, daughter of the Duke of Richmond; created Lord Holland, 1763; died, 1774.

See 33, 40, 117, 135- \ 5r X 154 PICTURES AT REDLTNCH HOUSE.

SITTING ROOM IN WING.

252. Lord Ilchester, Neddy Digby, Richard Cox, and

Delia," 1744. Ovt^' /v f ^.i

|HE firft Earl of Ilchefter, with his nephew Edward (afterwards fixth Lord Digby), the keeper, and a

dog, out Ihooting. ^ ^ ^ ^ Dew-; ->vy

See 29, 32, 40, 85, 1 14, alfo 1 15. i .

253. Lady Ilchester walking in Redlynch Park with her DOG Bully, 1741." i^-^ww

Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Strangways Horner, Efq.

firft Earl Born, 1723 ; married, 1736, Stephen Fox, of Ilchefter; died, 1792.

See 29, 34, 41, 87, 184, 240.

254. Sketch . . . Peter Paul Rubens. (1577-1640.)

Figures. Slaves bearing fruit.

255. Sir Robert Walpole.

Son of Robert Walpole, Efq., of Houghton, and Mary,

daughter of Sir JejfFrey Burwell, of Rougham. Born, 1674; he became celebrated as Prime Minifter to

George I. and George II. In 1 7 25 he received the Order of the Bath, in eledled his offices, and 1726 was K.G. ; refigned 1742, and was created Baron Houghton, Vifcount Walpole, and

Earl of Orford ; died in 1745.

Small full-length pidure. Drefled as Chancellor of the Exchequer.

See 347. r PICTURES

ABBOTSBURY CASTLE.

ABBOTSBURY CASTLE. DINING ROOM,

256. HOUSE, ^^^^LUB COWES . S. Lynn. (1836.) This pidlure was formerly in BurJington Street.

257. View on the Devonshire Coast. Bought, 1875.

258. > 259. Four Sea Views. 260 Bought, 1875. 261

LIBRARY.

262. View in Venice . After Antonio Canaletto, (1697-1768.)

263. St. Barbara, with facramental cup and wafer, and a crofs. St. Barbara, a.d. 303, patron faint of Mantua and Ferrara; of arms, armourers, and fortifications, and againft thunder and lightning. In addition to the cup and wafer of which

fhe alone, among female faints, is the bearer, her other attributes are a tower, a feather, a fword, a crown, and a palm. ABBOrSBURT CASTLE.

264. Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici.

School Angelo Bronzino. 5 11 - 5 8 of ( 1 1 o.)

Born, 1360 ; died, 1429. Was the anceftor of Leo X. and of Clement VII.

265. View of Venice . After Antonio Canaletto. (1697-1768.)

266. S. Nicola da Bari. Suor Plautilla Nelli, {School of Fra Bartolommeo.) (1523-1588.) Patron faint of Ruflia, Venice, Freiburg, and many feaport

towns, and of children, efpecially fchoolboys ; of poor failors, maidens, travellers and merchants; alfo protedlor againft

thieves and lofTes by robbery and violence. After many years fpent in good works and devotion to the care of his diocefe. Saint Nicholas died, to the great grief of his people, and was buried in the church at Myra, of which city he had been eledled bifhop, a.d. 326. In the year 1084, during the Crufades, fome merchants fucceeded in carrying his body

to Bari, where a fplendid church was built to receive it. Effigies in weftern art of this moft benign bifhop are reprefented with fplendid embroidered robes, glittering with gold and jewels, and with mitre, crofier, and three balls; or, frequently with three children in a tub, in allufion to the legend that he had, with the fign of the Crofs, reftored to their widowed mother three children who were fuppofed to have been wickedly killed. No faint in the calendar has fo many churches

dedicated to him. In Greek pidures he is drefled as a Greek bifhop, and bears a crofs inftead of a crofier. On his cape are generally embroidered the three Perfons of the Trinity. The Suor Plautilla Nelli, daughter of a noble Florentine,

took the vows in S. Caterina da Siena, at Florence, when fourteen, and taught herfelf to paint principally from ftudying Fra

Bartolommeo s defigns and cartoons. !

LIBRARY,

Clement VII. (Giulio de' Medici). Born, 1478. After the death of his coufin Leo X. in

1 521, Adrian of Utrecht was eleded to the Papal chair, through the advice of Cardinal GiuUo de' Medici. He was a very old man, and died 1 523. After two months' hefitation on the part of the conclave, Giulio de' Medici fecured the prize for himfelf, and took the name of Clement VII. He had had the greater portion of public bufmefs in his hands

during the pontificate of Leo X., and had alfo retained a certain degree of power under Adrian. No one therefore feemed more fitted than he to fuftain the burthen of the " Papacy, but, as Adrian had fadly obferved, How much it imports on what times are caft even the beft of men Clement endeavoured to avoid the faults of his two pre- decefTors—Leo's profufenefs and inftabiUty, and Adrian's want of fympathy with thofe by whom he was furrounded. He was extremely well informed, gave himfelf up entirely to bufinefs, in the carrying out of which he fhowed fingular acutenefs, and encouraged arts and fciences; but he had received the Popedom in the light of an Italian fovereignty at a moft critical moment. Hitherto he had promoted the proje6ls of Charles V. and the Spaniards, but now manifold reafons made him wifh to oppofe the interefts he had

previoufly favoured. It is impoffible here to fet forth all the incidents of the ftruggle which enfued. In 1526 the Italians

decided on a trial of their own ftrength ; Swifs aid was pro-

mifed, alfo the alliance of Francis I. of France, and of Henry VIIL of England. The refult would decide the liberation or thraldom of Italy, and with thefe thoughts Clement entered into war with the Spaniards. It was his boldeft and

loftiefl: conception ; his moft unfortunate and fatal ! At this moment the Diet had afiembled at Spires, to decide as to the

diflenfions then exifting in the Church ; and whatever inten- ABBOrSBURT CASTLE. tions may have been previoufly entertained, the ftate of war between the Pope and the Emperor put an end to all confi- derations in favour of the former. A decree of the Diet was figned, leaving it open for the States to comport themfelves as each might think beft, anfwering to God and the Emperor, in religious matters. And this refolution may be confidered as the ac5lual commencement of the Reformation, and the eftablifhment of a new church in Germany. The ftorm gathered and rolled onwards. As the mafles of the Im- perialifts drew together, the Italian troops difperfed. Rome numbered 30,000 inhabitants capable of bearing arms. They went about with fwords, fought with each other, and boafted of their deeds, but never more than 500 muftered to refift the enemy, who brought them certain deftrudion, and thus the

Pope and his power were vanquifhed. On the ift of May, 1527, the Imperialifts entered Rome; Bourbon, who had fo far led the army, fell ; and the troops, having no leader to enforce reftraint, burft over the whole city. Never was plunder more deftrudlive ; and Clement, who had fought the liberation of Italy, found himfelf beleagured in the Caftle of

St. Angelo. Strange to fay, he again entered into compadl with Charles V. and the Spaniards, and endeavoured to fecure their aid in reftoring the Medici to their former pofition in Florence, they having been expelled thence by Bourbon and his army when on their route to Rome ; and thus, the refult of the Spanifh War was, that Charles was far more powerful in Italy than any Emperor had been for centuries. The Reformation had made great progrefs during the Wars, and thenceforth the Reformers were called Proteftants. The firft alliance between the Emperor and the Pope was ratified in 1530, and before again leaving Italy for Germany, Charles kiffed the foot of the Pontiff, was conducted to a palace adjoining that of Clement, and amidll: general rejoicing and LIBRARY, i6i feftivity, received the ancient honour of coronation. The celebrated Diet of Augfburg then took place, and an expofi- tion of dodrines called the " Confeffions of Augfburg/' which had been drawn up by Melandhon, were read in full audience. The Emperor ordered a refutation to be drawn up, which proved a feeble protefl:,and thus ended the farce of difcuffion. The Cardinal Campeggio, who had aded as Legate for the

Pope, breathed whifpers of vengeance and cruelty^^to which the Emperor was unable to liften, but he forbade tEe Protef- tants to preach or publifh their dodrines. Clement groaned at his irkfome and degrading bondage, and foon afterwards entered fecretly into communication with

Francis I., and went to Marfeilles to meet him in 1533. He there fealed the extraordinary compadl that Francis fhould induce the Proteftant party to attack the Imperiahfts ; and the marriage of Francis' fecond fon, Henry, with Catherine de' Medici, daughter of Lorenzo, Duke of Urbino, was then arranged. In this alliance we may fee the ftrange em- barrafTment in which the Pontiff was placed. His religion fhould have leagued him with the Emperor, againft the

Proteftants, but political exigencies brought him into aUiance with Francis and the Proteftants, againft the Emperor. Stimulated by Francis, Philip of Heffe and other princes commenced a war with Auftria, which was fo fuccefsful that it caufed a rapid fpread of the Reformation through Germany. Neverthelefs, at this time, when the Pope was thus indireAly waging war with Charles V., he openly profeffed to be his ally. In the queftion of Henry VIII.'s divorce from Catharine of Arragon, which had been pending for years, he was entirely guided by the will of the Emperor. He pro- hibited the divorce, and pubhftied a Bull excommunicating the Englifti monarch, in retribution for which, in the fpring Parhament enaded that papal fupremacy of 1 534, the Enghfti l62 ABBOrSBURT CASTLE,

fhould ceafe to be acknowledged in the Britifh Ifles. Thus, the fame year which faw Germany eftabhfhing the Reforma-

tion, witnefTed alfo the final feparation of the Church of England from Rome. This calamitous year for the Papacy

I. was alfo the year of Clement VI 's death. He died, aged " fifty-fix, in 1 534. Ranke, in his Hiftory of the Popes," pronounces him to have been "the moft ill-fated and unlucky

Pontiff who ever fat on the Papal throne."

Clement VII. is feated, turned to the right, dreffed in ordinary-

Pontifical attire. His right hand is forward, and his forefinger extended. The background of the pifture reprefents an ecclefi-

aftical building, with ftone pilafters. This portrait has evidently, at fome earlier period, formed one pifture with that of Leo X. (No. 273), and Clement feems to be explaining fome fubje£l earneftly to Leo X., through the medium of the Cardinal (unknown) who ftands alfo facing Leo, and whofe portrait is cut into two portions by the divifion of the pidure.

268. Copy of San Vincenzio predicante.

The original by Fra Bartolommeo is now No. 69, Accademia delle Belle Arti in Florence. San Vincenzio has been honoured fince the fourth century throughout Chriftendom,

and efpecially in Spain. His attribute is a raven, the legend being that after his death his body was caft out to

wild beafl:s, and a raven came and guarded it. It was then

thrown out to fea, but the body was fpeedily returned to the

fiiore, where the waves hollowed a grave in the fand. In the eighth century, when the Chriftians were driven from Valencia

by the Moors, they took the body of St. Vincent (which had been previoufly carried by fome Chriftians to Valencia), and fled to a certain promontory, which has ever since been

known as Cape St. Vincent, where ravens again guarded the

body of the faint. And when four hundred years later the relics were removed by the King of Portugal to Lifbon, two ravens

fat on either end of the fhip, and guided it to its deftination. LIBRARY,

The Holy Family . Bernardo Strozzi^ called II Cappucino.

Strozzi who was born in 158 1 and died in 1644, left the cloifter, when a prieft, to contribute to the fupport of an aged

mother and fifter, but the one dying, and the other marrying, he refufed to return to his Order, and being forcibly recalled and fentenced to three years' imprifonment, he made his efcape, fled to Venice, and there pafled the remainder of his

days as a fecular prieft. His beft works are to be feen in Genoa and Venice; in richnefs and vigour of colour he

is original, and without rival. He was buried at S. Fofco, in Venice.

San Giovanni Battista. Fra Angelico da Fiejole, (1387- 1445.) Fra Angelico rigidly followed the ancient traditions of the Church, and has left in his frefco paintings on the walls of San Marco, numerous and remarkable proofs of his zeal, induftry, and devotion of fpirit. All his works are more or lefs pervaded by deep religious feehng, and the type of face which

he delineates, is always marked by pious fervour, or by

ecftafy. There are many pidures by him exifting in various European galleries, and two examples are in the National Gallery.

Miniature of Lady Charlotte Fox Strangways. Born, 1784. Fourth daughter of Henry Thomas, fecond Bart., of Earl of Ilchefter. Married, 1 8 1 o. Sir Charles Lemon, Carclew, Cornwall, and died, 1826. See 70.

Miniature of Lady Louisa Fox Strangways. Thomas, fecond Earl Born, 1785. Fifth daughter of Henry Petty, afterwards of Ilchefter. Married, 1808, Lord Henry third Marquis of Lanfdowne, and died, 1851. See 70. 164 ABBOrSBURT CASTLE.

273. Leo X. (Giovanni de' Medici.) Son of Lorenzo de* Medici, called the Magnificent. Born

1 47 5. Elefted Pope greatly through the energy and tad of the Cardinal de Bibbiena in 15 13. At eleven years of age Leo had been made an Archbifliop by Louis XL, King of France,

and at fourteen Julius II. had invefted him with the dignity of Legate, and he ferved as fuch in the army which was defeated

by the French near Ravenna in 151 2. He was taken prifoner after that battle, but the foldiers fhowed the moft fuperftitious veneration for his perfon as the reprefentative of the Pope. When he was himfelf eledled as fucceflbr to

Julius II. on the papal throne, his coronation was celebrated with unufual pomp. He terminated the difputes which had exifted between his predeceflbr and Louis XII. of France, concluded the Council of the Lateran, and formed a fplendid library, which he enriched with ineftimable manufcripts.

This Pontiff formed two great projedls : the one to effed the general affociation of the Chriftian Powers againft the Turks, and the other to complete the Church of St. Peter's,

with all that art could accomplifli in beauty and grandeur. To aid thefe fchemes, he iffued plenary indulgences, by which the purchafers procured the pardon of their fins. But thefe indulgences being carried into Germany, aroufed the zeal of Luther, and ultimately produced the Reformation.

Leo X. was a munificent patron of learning and the arts, and his fhort Pontificate forms one of the moft interefting epochs in Papal hifi:ory. In 15 21, with the affiftance of

Charles V., he entered into war againft Francis I., in the hope

of expeUing the French for ever from Italian foil, and regaining the States of Parma and Piacenza, and the refult had been fuccefs, Francis promifing to withdraw French forces entirely from Italy. Exultation at fo fignal a triumph threw him into the greateft excitement, and a glorious career LIBRARY.

feemed open to his ambition, but he was fuddenly leized with a fatal illnefs, and expired within the courfe of a few hours, towards the clofe of the year 1521. He was forty-fix years of age, and had reigned only eight years.

Leo X. is feated, facing the left, and appears liftening with much attention to words addrelled to him by the Cardinal (No. 267). The portrait of Leo X. is almoft identical with RafFaelle's well- known piaure (No. 63 in the Pitti Palace at Florence). He has a lorgnette in his hand, and fits before an open book placed on a table, but though charafters in writing appear on the pages of the book, thefe do not feem intended to convey any fpecial meaning^ but rather to indicate a manufcript. Two fentences begin with a red le tter in ufual mediaeval ftyle, but nothing conveying ideas can be deciphered.

274. Madonna, San Michele, 1 Domenico Ghirlandajo, San Giovanni Battista, Etc.) (1449-1493.)

San Michele is the firft of the angels ; the greateft, the

mightieft of all created beings. Mrs. Jamiefon in her " Sacred and Legendary Art " obferves, that an armed figure winged, ftanding on a dragon, reprefents St. Michael—if unwinged, St. George. Domenico Ghirlandajo was a Florentine painter, who flourifhed towards the end of the fifteenth century, and ranks high among his contemporaries. There are many admirable frefcoes painted by him in the Santa Trinita Chapel, and in the

choir of S. Maria Novella at Florence. He alfo worked in mofaics. Michael Angelo was his pupil in painting, but foon devoted his time to the pradtice of fculpture.

275. Landscape with Dogs, Goats, and Peasants.

J. F, Van Bloemen. (1656- 1740.) the beauty of the J. F. Van Bloemen, called Orizzonte, from diftances in his pidures. He was born at Antwerp, but lived

in Italy, and there is fcarcely a palace in Rome which does not boaft his works. ;

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276. Hon. and Rev. the Dean of Durham, LL.D.

Copy from Sir J. Beynolds. William, fourth fon of Edward, eldeft furviving fon of William, fifth Lord Digby, and Charlotte Fox, the youngeft daughter of Sir Stephen Fox, Kt. Born, 1733. Took Holy Orders, and was prefented to the Vicarage of Colefhill, Co.

Warwick ; made one of His Majefty's Chaplains in ordinary, alfo Canon of Chrift Church, Oxford. In 1769, Dean of Worcester, and, in 1777, promoted to the Deanery of Durham. In April, 1766, he married Charlotte, daughter of Jofeph Cox, Efq., and left three fons and five daughters. Died, 1788.

The original pidure by Sir Jolhua Reynolds is at Sherborne Caftle.

277. Princess Charlotte of Wales. Sir Thomas Lawrence. (1769- 1830.) Only child of the Prince of Wales (afterwards George IV.) and the Princefs Caroline, daughter of the Duke of Brunfwick

Wolfenbuttel. Born, April , 1796. Married, 18 16, Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg (late King of the Belgians), and died, to the univerfal grief of the nation, after giving birth to a ftill-born child in November, 1817. There had been much

difcufiion, in 18 14, as to a propofed marriage for the Princefs Charlotte with the Prince of Orange, to which fhe objedled and by an arrangement between her father (then Prince Regent) and Queen Charlotte, Maria, Dowager Countefs of Ilchefter, who was an extra Lady of the Bedchamber to Her Majefty,

was appointed by them to afTift in the arrangements jof the Princefs's houfehold, and remained with her until her marriage

in 1 8 1 6. The Princefs Charlotte fpent the fummer and autum^n

of 1 8 14, and alfo of 18 15, at Weymouth, and was occafion-

ally at Abbotfbury ; alfo in the latter year fhe vifited Melbury, where on the lead on the top of the tower, her foot-mark LIBRARY,

was imprelTed, and there alfo Her Majefty's footmark may be feen, having been imprefTed in July, 1833, when fhe, as Prin- cefs Vidloria, vifited Melbury with her mother, H.R.H. the Duchefs of Kent. There is a lithograph of this pidure by Sir Thomas Lawrence, by Vinter, publiihed by Day, which forms the frontifpiece to Vol. I. of Mifs Cornelia Knight's " Autobiography."

278. Madonna and Child.

Seated under a canopy. Angels, St. Peter and St. Paul. Gold background.

In Greek pidlures the drefs of St. Peter, alfo of St. Paul, is

a blue tunic and white drapery. St. Peter ufually carries two

keys opening the gates of heaven and hell, but fometimes only

one key. Rarely he carries three, expreffing when that is the

cafe, dominion over heaven, earth, and hell. St. Paul carries

the book or fcroll in his hand ; fometimes twelve fcrolls

defignating his epiftles. The fword is alfo his attribute, and in a double fenfe, fignifying the manner of his martyrdom, and emblematical of the good fight fought by the faithful Chriftian

armed with " the Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of

God" (Ephes. vi., 17).

279. Crucifixion. On gold ground.

280. Crucifixion. Two angels with wings outftretched in the air. Gold background. A very early pidure.

281. Landscape: Castle and Rock. Gqfpar Pouffin. (1613-1675.) Gafpar was the pupil of his brother-in-law, Nicholas Pouffin, under whofe guidance he became a celebrated landfcape painter. i68 ABBOrSBURT CASTLE.

282. Head of one of the Medici Family. Angela Bronzino, or of his School. Bronzino (15 11- 1580) was a fuccefsful portrait painter (a pupil of Andrea del Sarto). He painted with originality

and fpirit.

283. St. Catherine and St. Barbara. Early picture on a gold background.

Where St. Catherine and St. Barbara are found in one pi6ture, as they frequently are (in German art efpecially), the

firft appears as patronefs of the ecclefiaftical, and the fecond of the military power, or they reprefent refpecflively the contem-

plative and the a6live life. St. Catherine bears the palm by right. The fword exprefles the manner of her death. As a

fovereign princefs the crown is hers by right, and the book is fymbolic of her learning. She tramples on Maximin as the

Pagan tyrant. The fpecial attribute, however, of St. Catherine

is her wheel. When entire, it is an emblem of the torture to

which fhe was expofed. In later pictures it is often reprefented

as broken, and is then an hiftorical attribute, reprefenting the inftrument by which fhe was to have been tortured, and the miracle by which fhe was redeemed, a.d. 307. St. Barbara bears the fword and palm, in common with other martyrs in devotional pidlures. When fhe wears a

diadem it is as a martyr, not as a princefs. She has alfo a

book, and is frequently reprefented reading, but her peculiar

and almofl invariable attribute is a tower. St. Barbara was the daughter of Diofcorus, a noble of Heliopolis, who was fo afraid his daughter would be fought in marriage and leave

him, that he hid her from all eyes by keeping her confined in a high tower. Here fhe fpent her time in thought and fludy; and hearing of the fame of Origen fhe wrote to him for inflrudlion, and he fent her one of his difciples, who LIBRARY. 169

converted and baptized her. St. Barbara then defired the workmen engaged on her tower to build her three windows

inftead of two, as they had done, becaufe it was through

three windows (the Trinity) that the foul received light.

The tower is often reprefented as a mafTive building in the background, but occafionally (efpecially in early German

pidlures) fhe holds the tower in her hand. St. Barbara is alfo

feen holding a feather, and is ufually dreffed with great magnificence, in red drapery, a.d. 304.

284. The PietA, or Descent from the Cross.

Copy Fra Bartolommeo. 5 7 from ( 1 46 9- 1 1 .)

The beautiful original of this fubjedl was painted by Fra

Bartolommeo in 15 17 for the monks of S. Gallo, and is now placed in the Pitti Palace, No. 64. The kneeling Virgin and St. John fupport the head of our Saviour, and Mary Magdalene weeps at His feet; the latter, in an agony of

grief, hides her face on the ground. The colouring is extremely rich, broad mafTes of full tone melting foftly into deep fhadows. Fra Bartolommeo died Odober, 1517, aged forty-two. The monks felt his death deeply, and buried him with great honour in San Marco. Baccio della Porta was

his original name, but after taking his final vows in 1 500 in the Convent of San Domenico at Prato, he was only known ,f

' as Fra Bartolommeo.''

285. Head of one of the Medici Family. School of Bronzino,

286. ViSITAZIONE della ViRGINE. Jacopo Carucci da Pontormo. (1493-155^-)

The original painting is a frefco which ftill exifts in the Court of the St. Annunziata at Florence, and was executed Pontormo was by far the moft in 1 5 16. Jacopo Carucci da z JBBOrSBURT CAS'TLE. talented of the fcholars of Andrea del Sarto. He entered his fchool, 1 5 1 2 ; and his hand is to be feen in feveral of his mafter's works. His frefco of "The Vifitation ftill exifts in the Court of the SS. Annunziata in Florence, and fhows him as a good and pure colourift, the compofition being alfo full and effedive. Some extenfive frefcos he executed in the

Church of S. Lorenzo, in Florence, reprefenting the Deluge and the Laft Judgment, in the mannered ftyle of imitators of Michael Angelo, occupied him eleven years, but they have been long fince obliterated. He was excellent in the painting of portraits, which are warm in colouring, powerful, and admirably finilhed — free from the mannerifm of his frefcos. A Portrait of a Boy,'* by Pontormo, in the National Gallery, was formerly in the pofTefiion of the Duke of Brunfwick. DRAWING ROOM AND PASSAGE.

DRAWING ROOM

287. Sea View : Peasants and Herds . Pandolfo Refchi, lANDOLFO, otherwife called Refchi,was born at

in life to ! Dantzic, in 1643. He went early Italy, and became a pupil ofGiacomo Borgognone, and was one of his ableft fcholars. He painted battlepieces with confiderable talent, and imitated

with fuccefs the landfcapes of Salvator Rofa. He alfo excelled

in painting perfpedive and architeftural views, of which there are feveral in the collections at Florence. He died 1699.

288. Large Landscape with Brigands. Pandolfo Refchi. (i 643-1 699.)

(Bolognefe Sketch.) 289. The Ascension of the Virgin .

290. Large Landscape: Peasants. Pandolfo Refchi, (1643- 16 99.)

Carlo Bold. (161 6- 1686.) 291. La Poesia . . Copy from at Florence. This pidure is in the Palazzo Corfmi

Giottino. 292. Glory of Angels Tommafo Stefano attached himfelf to the ftyle of Giotto, 174 ABBOrSBURT CASTLE,

and was ufually called " II Giottino." Born in Florence, 1324, great grandfon and difciple of Giotto, whofe ftyle he

followed more than that of his father Stefano, called II

Fiorentino." He died at Florence in the prime of life, 1356.

PASSAGE OUTSIDE DRAWING ROOM.

293. Nun with Crucifix.

294. Head of our Saviour.

Copy by J. JVallis from Antonio Allegri^ called Correggio. Called da Correggio from his having been born at Correggio, a fmall town in the Duchy of Modena, in 1494. The moft

important work of Correggio is the painting in the cupola of

the cathedral at Parma, of the AfTumption of the Virgin " in

frefco, completed in i 530. Parma is rich in other works of Correggio, for there he fpent his life in the cultivation of art. Without having wandered from his own country, without having even vifited Rome, he was the creator of a grandeur

all his own. His forms are exquifitely beautiful, and his heads exhibit a graceful tendernefs of expreffion almoft inimit-

able, while his colouring is delicate and pure. He died almoft fuddenly in 1534, aged forty.

295. St. James the Great, Apostle and Martyr.

Was the fon of Zebedee and Salome, and brother of St.

John ; and not only was he one of the Twelve Apoftles, but he was one of the three chofen witnefles of our Lord's greateft glory and deepeft humihation upon earth. In the Tranf- PASSAGE OUTSIDE DRAPFING ROOM,

figuration, and in the Agony in Gethfemane, as well as in the miracle of the raifing of Jairus daughter, Peter and the two fons of Zebedee were the three chofen to be with our Lord.

St. James is the only Apoftle whofe death is recorded in the

New Teftament, and the firft who fuffered martyrdom, being killed at Jerufalem, with the fword, by order of King Herod Agrippa I., a.d. 44 (A^s xii. 2).

His attributes are a long ftajfF, with wallet or bottle, and a

fcallop fhell, and he is the patron faint of Spain. There are

many legends of him, and, amongft others, it is faid that after

his death his difciples, fearing to bury his body, placed it in a fhip which was guided by angels to the coaft of Spain. Here the body was taken out, and laid on a great ftone which

became foft like wax, and clofed round it, fhowing that this

was its chofen refting-place, and a great church was built to

receive it ; neverthelefs it was removed to Compoftella, a.d. 800.

Early pi6lure, with gold background.

296. Head of Madonna. Correggio. Copy by J, fFallis from Antonio Allegri, called

The pidure, of which this is the copy by Wallis, is the Madonna della Scodella, in the Pinacoteca at Parma.

297. Our Saviour and Mater Dolorosa. Two heads in one frames by Andrea del Caftagno,

Andrea del Caftagno, born at Caftagno in Tufcany, 1409, affiftance is confidered a painter of great merit. Through the of Bernardetto de' Medici, he became a pupil of Mafaccio. Domenico Veneziano vifited Florence later, and imparted from to Caftagno a new method of colouring he had learnt Antonello da Meflina, which was extremely admired. To be ABBOrSBURT CASTLE. the po/TefTor alone of fo valuable a difcovery was fo great a temptation to Caflagno, that he conceived the horrid projedl of aflaflinating his friend, which he effedied and efcaped fufpicion.

Tormented by remorfe and terror, a few years later, it is faid, he painted himfelf in the character of Judas, and confefled his crime. He died in 1480. WEST DRESSING ROOM.

WEST DRESSING ROOM.

298. The Head of an Angel.

HIS painting is a copy by J. Wallis, of an original pidure by Leonardo da Vinci in the Palazzo Vecchio at Florence.

299. Companion Picture to 298. Cofy from Leonardo da Vinci,

By J. Wallis (fon of G. Wallis). Born, 1790. Died, 1862.

300. S. Lisabetta. This pidure isconfidered a Francia Bigio (born, 1483 ; died, 1524), but has the name of Andrea Vanucchi del Sarto written at the back. Thefe artifts were friends, and frequently painted conjointly,—in fbort entered into a fort of partner/hip in 1520, in the Scalzo Convent; poffibly therefore this

pidlure may be a joint produdion, or maybe it is a copy from

Andrea del Sarto, by Francia Bigio ? Andrea Vanucchi was born 1488, and died of the Plague in 1530. He was buried by the monks of the Scalzo, in the church of SS. Annunziata at Florence. i8o ABBOTSBURT CASTLE,

301. George III.

George III. was born, 1738, at Norfolk Houfe, St. James's Square. The fon of Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales (died

1 751), and his wife Augufta, the daughter of Frederick, fecond Duke of Saxe Gotha. Succeeded his grandfather,

George II., as King of England, 1760. Married, September,

1 76 1, Sophia Charlotte, daughter of the Prince of Mecklen- burg Strelitz, and was with her crowned on Sept. 22, the

fame year. George III. died at Windfor, January, 1820, in the fixtieth year of his reign, the longeft in the annals of England. Small pifture. Head and flioulders. In uniform with cocked hat.

302. Interior of a Hall, or College.

Old man feated. Very fmall pi£lure.

303. Mother and Child.

304. Landscape with Cattle . . . Mrs, McTaggart.

This pidure is a copy from a portion of the Cuyp, at Melbury, and was painted by Mrs. McTaggart (nee Hamil- ton), who was a friend of Maria, Lady Ilchefter, and of Mrs. Campbell, who was the governefs to Princefs Charlotte.

305. St. Mark (Evangelist). Copy from Fra Bartolommeo, {Baccio delta Porta.) 5 ( 1469- 1 1 7.)

St. Mark is not mentioned in the Gofpels, and is firft named

in the New Teftament (Adls xii. 12), where we read that St. Peter, after his miraculous efcape from prifbn, came to the houfe of Mary the mother of "John, whofe furname was

Mark." (St. Mark's mother is fuppofed to have been the fifter of Saint Barnabas, and a perfon of fome importance, in whofe fVESr DRESSING ROOM. i8i

houfe Chriftians aflembled for prayer.) St. Mark was con-

verted to Chriftianity by St. Peter, and it is the univerfal belief that he wrote his Gofpel as a record of that Apoftle's teaching, if not under his adual dire(5lion. Rome and Alexandria are both mentioned as the place of his writing, the

former becaufe St. Peter is believed there to have fuffered

martyrdom, and the latter becaufe in his later years Mark is

faid to have been the firft Bifhop of Alexandria. St. Mark

wrote his Gofpel in Greek, and its date is probably very

/hortly fubfequent to that of St. Matthew, and before the deftrudion of Jerufalem, a.d. 70. Fra Bartolommeo's pidlure of St. Mark in the Pitti Palace,

painted 15 14, from which this fmall pidure is a copy, is

confidered one of his fineft produdions. St. Mark is

reprefented as a man in the prime of life, with bufhy hair, and a fhort, reddifh beard, holding in one hand the Gofpel,

and in the other a pen. The lion is omitted. The archi-

tectural niche in which the figure is placed, like a carving in

relief, was adopted by Fra Bartolommeo to avoid any painting being hidden beneath the frame. This pidture was painted by the Frate for his own Convent of San Marco at Florence.

306. Interior of a Hall, or College, and Figure of an OLD Man.

307. San Giovanni (Evangelist and Apostle).

This pidlure, Hke No. 300, is called by Francia Bigio, but the name of Andrea Vanucchi del Sarto is written on the back, as alfo the name of the fubjed.

St. John, the chofen of all the Apofties of our Lord, was the fon of Zebedee and Salome, and the younger brother of St. James the Great. The early writers of the Church relate many traditions of St. John. During the latter part of the I82 JBBOrSBURT CASTLE.

life of Mary, the mother of our Lord, St. John continued his labours in Judea, in obedience to the exprefTed wifhes of his Mafter, but his later years were fpent at Ephefus, where, after

the death of St. Paul, he prefided over the Seven Churches of Afia Minor. He was banifhed to Patmos at one period, by order of Domitian, and there wrote the Book of Revelation. He again, however, returned to Ephefus, where he died, aged one hundred years, being the only one of the Apoftles who

did not fuffer martyrdom. St. John's writings were all of a late date, but his Gofpel was undoubtedly later than his three Epiftles, and was probably written after the deftrudlion of

Jerufalem, when the church of Chrift was eftablifhing itfelf far and wide. Regarding the four emblems, or fymbols, which reprefent the Four Evangelifts—the man or angel, the lion,

the ox, and the eagle, there is a difference of opinion as to the

application of the three firft named, but the eagle is always

allowed to reprefent St. John, and moft fitly, for, like the eagle, he foars high above the earth, and bafks in the funlight of Divine truth.

308. Head of Medusa.

The third of three hideous fifters, of whom fhe only was mortal. Her hair was changed into ferpents by Minerva.

|The Temptation of Eve. 309- lAdam and Eve turned out of the Garden of Eden.

Thefe two fubjedls are curioufly reprefented in this old pidlure.

310. Head of Castro . A. Raphael Mengs. (1728-1779.) A Spanifh archited. Anton Raphael Mengs was one of the beft painters of his JVESr DRESSING ROOM. time. He began to ftudy the art of painting at a very early age, his father taking him firft to Drefden, and afterwards to Rome. He fpent much time in after Rfe at Rome, occafionally returning to Saxony, and alfo paying a vifit to Spain, in both of which Courts he held appointments. Generally fpeaking, the ftyle of Anton Raphael Mengs was fuperior in frefco to that of his pidtures in oil. Moft of his beft works are to be found now in Madrid, and his mafterpiece, an

"Adoration of the Shepherds," is No. 1,435 Mufeo there. Mengs is alfo well reprefented at the Hermitage at

St. Peterfburg, where is his own portrait. No. 1,303.

Throughout his life he entirely devoted himfelf to ftudy, without giving himfelf the reft or relaxation neceftary for his health. He died in 1779, ^o^^ ^% years.

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311. San Giovanni Battista.

Copy by J, Wallis^from a pi5fure in the Louvre^ by Leonardo da Vinci.

HE whole hiftory of this faint is given by the Evangehfts, and legends have not added much to it. St. John the Baptift's death took place a.d. 29, about a year previous to the Crucifixion of Our Lord. Leonardo da Vinci was born at Florence, a.d. 1452, and though he far excels his predecefTors of previous centuries,

ftill he cannot be clafTed altogether with mafters of the early

portion of the fixteenth century, who carried art to its higheft ftate of perfedion. Leonardo was one of the moft accom-

pli fhed men of his times : painter, fculptor, mufician, and poet. Painting was neverthelefs his favourite purfuit. His mafter was Andrea Verocchio, but a fingle figure painted by Leonardo in a pidure of Verocchio's, an angel in the " Baptifm of Chrift " (No. 43 in the Florentine Academy) fhows the fuperiority of the pupil to that of his mafter. Many

works by Leonardo now extant, may more probably, it is believed, be attributed to thofe of his pupils, of whom were principally Bernardino Luini, F. Meizi, Andrea Salarno, and i88 ABBOTSBURT CJSTLE.

Marco d' Aggione. Perhaps Leonardo's moft famous work

is his celebrated pidlure of the " Laft Supper," painted on a wall in the Dominican Convent of the Madonna della Grazie, at Milan. Owing to many reafons, and more particularly to

the fadl that it was painted in oil inftead of in frefco, this

great work has long been a wreck, and very little of the

original now remains, though at the time it was painted it was confidered the greateft work that had ever appeared. Leonardo died at Cloux, near Amboife, 5 in his fixty- 1 1 9, feventh year.

312. Woman's Head . . After Mafaccio. (Born 1402.) Tommafo Guidi, commonly called " Mafaccio," was born in the upper Valdarno (1402). His principal works are a feries of frefcos well preferved in the Brancacci Chapel in the Church of the Carmelites, at Florence. Many of the heads attributed to Mafaccio in the galleries of Europe are doubtful. He freed himfelf from the conventional ftyle of his predeceflbrs,

forming one of his own from the ftudy of Nature ; and Sir

Jofhua Reynolds faid of him that He appears to be the firft who difcovered the path to every excellence to which the art afterwards arrived, and may be therefore considered one of the great fathers of modern art." Mafaccio died in Rome, 1429, aged only twenty-feven, according to fome authorities, others give 1443 as the date of his death.

313. Head of a Woman . Giotto di Bondone, (1276-1337.) Giotto's occupation as a boy was to tend fheep. About the year 1286, the celebrated painter Cimabue furprifed him,

while tending his father s flocks, in the a6l of Sketching one

of the fheep, on a fl:one he had picked up. Aftonifhed at his

ability, Cimabue obtained his father's fandtion to take the boy back with him to Florence, where he gave him inftruc- EAST BEDROOM. 189

tions in the art of painting, and he became one of the greateft mafters of the early portion of the fourteenth century. Giotto was alfo {killed in architedure and in fculpture. In painting, the works which gained him the greateft celebrity are the

wall paintings in the lower church of San Francifco at Affifi,

and the feries of frefcos of the hiftory of Chrift in the Church

of the Madonna dell' Arena, at Padua. Dante was on the moft intimate terms with Giotto, and doubtlefs this friendfhip influenced his works to fome extent. Giotto died at Florence, 1337, and was buried in the Cathedral there with great pomp.-

314. Heads of Philip and Maria Theresa of Saxony. Copiedfrom an unfinijhed painting by A. Raphael Mengs, (1728-1779.) 315. Head of Queen Charlotte. A chalk fketch by Sir Jofhua Reynolds, whofe name is written on the pi6ture. Queen Charlotte was the daughter of Charles Frederick, Prince of Mecklenberg-Strelitz, born, May, 1744; married

George III. in 1 761, and was crowned with him very foon afterwards. Queen Charlotte died in November, 1818.

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316. View in Venice. Bought, 1875.

317. View on Sea-Coast M, Callow. Bought, 1875.

318. View of Scottish Scenery: Mountains and Lake. Bought, 1874. 190 ABEOrSBURT CASTLE.

1 Three Small Pictures with Deer. 320. > 1 Bought, 1876.

321. J

322. Small Landscape. Bought, 1875. PICTURES

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PICTURES AT 42, BELGRAVE SQUARE. DRAWING ROOM.

323. Landscape with Figures . Andrea Lucatelli {16(^6-1^4^1).

|N this landfcape a mountain and buildings are feen in the diftance. A lake and figures in the foreground.

Andrea Lucatelli was a Roman landfcape painter, whofe pidures may be clafTed with thofe

of J. F. Van Bloemen,otherwife called Orizzonte. He flourifhed at the fame period, and occafionally worked in conjundlion with him. Many of his works are in England and are frequently beautiful reprefentations of Arcadian fcenes. This pidlure came from Abbotfbury.

324. Landscape Giacomo da Font called II Bajfano, (1510-1592.) This pi6lure, formerly in Burlington Street, reprefents a cottage with an avenue of trees, and figures of men, of whom

one is on horfeback.

Giacomo da Ponte was called II Baflano, from his native

city, in the Venetian States, where he lived during the greater

portion of his life. He executed many works, and his earlier pi6lures are fpecially confpicuous for excellence of colouring and mafterly chiarofcuro. Rather later he was the originator c c "

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; in Italy of a ftyle of painting now confidered as Genre

that is to fay, he was in the habit of executing pidlures into

which he introduced figures, animals and ftill life, the bafis of the compofition being often landfcape. Baflano, however, Hkewife excelled in portrait painting.

325. The Magdalene . . Onorio Marinari, (1627-1715.)

The figure of Mary Magdalene in this pi6lure (formerly in

Burlington Street) is turned to the right, and fhe is clad in a dark blue robe, her arms uncovered. An open book on a table to the

right, and a (kull laid on it. Marinari was the coufin of Carlo Dolci (16 16- 1686), and arrived at a great degree of excellence in copying his works. Many of his pidlures in England are called by Carlo Dolci^s name erroneoufly. After Carlo Dolci's death, however, Marinari finifhed many of his works, not to their difadvantage.

326. A Sea View . . . Gajpar Pouffin. (1613-1675.)

Circular pifture, with fea and a few fmall velTels. On the

" right is feen a round tower, and on the left buildings, and a dome. ^ C 7" In the foreground are fome figures. This pidlure was brought from Abbotfbury.

327. St. Francis d'Assisi and St. Antony of Padua. Ludovico Cardi^ called Cigoli, (b. 1559, d. 16 13.)

St. Francis of AfTifi, fo frequently reprefented in art, was

born at AfTifi in Umbria (11 82). His father was a rich merchant and educated his fon well. He had always been beloved by his friends and companions, and when after a

dangerous illnefs, he became enthufiaftically devout, many

joined him in vows of renunciation of all worldly goods, and

with the fandlion of Innocent III. he founded the Order of

the Francifcans, which fo rapidly increafed, that in 1 219, he

held a chapter attended by five thoufand friars. His earnefl: DRAWING ROOM.

afpirations for the converfion of finners determined him to preach to the followers of Mahomet, hoping to receive the crown of martyrdom at their hands; but his efforts from various caufes were rendered fruitlefs, and St. Francis returned to Affifi, where in 1226, after much fuffering, he died, and

was canonifed by Gregory IX. in 1 230. Many miracles are recorded of St. Francis.

St. Antony of Padua was one of thofe who entered the

Francifcan Order, and affifted St. Francis in the firft general Chapter of the Order, and of him alfo many miracles are recorded. He died, aged thirty-fix, 1231, and was canonifed in 1232.

In this piflure St. Francis's figure is turned to the right, he

kneels, and is apparelled in his Francifcan habit, as alfo is St. Antony. He gazes upwards as in a wondrous vifion, which

feems alfo to be feen by St. Antony, whofe hands are uplifted, An open book lies on the ground. The figure of a man crucified feen in the rays of light proceeding from the fky on the right-

hand corner, fhows the vifion to be that which occurred in Monte

Alverno, where, on awaking from contemplation, St. Francis found that in his hands, feet, and fide, he carried the Stigmata, or marks of the wounds of Chrifl:.

Cigoli painted many eafel pidures of faints, particularly St. Francis, hermits, and Magdalenes at devotion, which are remarkable for the expreffion given in them of fervour, con-

trition, and abftinence, and thefe are generally highly finifhed.

328. Landscape Gqfpar Pouffin, ^ ajl .

Small circular pifture, formerly at Abbotfbury, reprefenting a ^ r road leading down to water on the left. A fquare tower in the centre and buildings in the diftance. In the foreground are a few fmall figures.

329. Landscape .... {^477''^ 57^-) Figures of three A dark pidure with a waterfall and bridge. —

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men in left-hand corner, who appear to be pointing to fome ruined buildings on a hill behind them.

330. Assumption OF THE Virgin . Carlo Maratti, (1625-1713.)

L'aflunzione della Vergine colF Bambino all' Filippo

Neri, eftratto dall' Palazzo Gondi Carratani, di Firenze." S. Filippo Neri (1575) was founder of the Order of the Oratorians, fo called from the little oratory in which that

congregation firft aflembled. His pious life, and bright and beautiful chara6ler, have in our times won the love and devotion of Dr. Newman, when he was yet a Proteftant. He dedicated the Oratory he was diredted to eftablifh in Birmingham to S. Filippo Neri, and has made frequent allufions to him in his writings, efpecially in his poems. In

one of thefe he fays :

" Yet there is one I more afFeft Than Jefuit, hermit, monk, or friar, 'Tis an old man of fweet afpe6l, I love him more, I more admire.

** I know him by his head of fnow. His ready fmile, his keen, full eye. His words which kindle as they flow. Save he be rapt in ecftafy."

S. Filippo Neri kneels in contemplation of the vifion accorded

to him of the Virgin and Child, and gazes upwards. He is turned to the right and attired in magnificent veftments. An open book lies at his feet. Heads of cherubs appear through

clouds, and an angel, bearing a lily (his fymbol), is feen on the

ground a little in advance of the faint. This pidure was formerly at Abbotfbury.

331. Battle-piece Be Hondt, This pifture was formerly in Burlington Street, and reprefents

a battle-field. There is a round tower to the right, and on the left two large ftandards are being carried. Wounded men are lying in the foreground.

De Hondt is faid to have been a pupil of Teniers, and his pidlures fometimes approach very clofely to his manner. DRAWING ROOM, 197

332. Adoration OF THE Magi . Carlo Bold. (1616-1686.) This pifture, brought from Abbotfhury, fliould be confidered in the light of an unfinifhed (ketch. The Virgin is feated, with the Infant Saviour on her knee. She leans forward, refting her face on His head. One of the wife men kneels before them in adoration. To the left are grouped the Eaftern kings, and other figures.

Carlo Dolci was the laft painter of merit of the Ecledic or Caracci fchool. After him again prevailed mannerifm, and a period of decadence enfued. His works are chiefly religious fubjedls, moft frequently reprefenting Our Saviour and the Virgin Mary ; they are much admired for their tranquil ex- preflion and harmonious colouring.

333. Landscape . Claude Gelee^ called Lorraine. (1600- 168 2.) Mountains in the diftance. Water, a bridge, and two boats.

A group of large trees dark in colouring, to the left, with figures in the foreground. This pidure was formerly at Redlynch,

where it was framed in panel over the fire-place in the Billiard Room.

Claude Gelee, called Claude Lorraine, was born in Lorraine. His parents being very poor, Claude, who feemed to have no tafte for learning, was placed in fervice with Agoflino Tafli, a good painter of landfcapes. The boy^s duty was to grind and prepare colours for his mafter, and he thus acquired the

rudiments of his art. In 1623, Claude was already known in Rome as a great landfcape painter, but his earlieft pidlures of note were painted about 1630, his beft, fifteen or twenty years later. The chief excellence of this painter confifl:s in the aerial effedls and the management of light, but he did not excel in drawing figures or animals.

334. The Birth OF Our Saviour . M, A, Anfelmi. (1491-1554.) This pifture, in the ftyle of Parmegiano, was formerly at Abbotf- bury, and reprefents the Virgin feated with the Holy Infant on BELGRAVE SQUARE,

her knee. Figures of feveral women around her ; a cherub, holding flowers, looks down from the left corner of the pidure.

335. The Holy Family. Cortona^ Pietro Berretiniy da (1596-1669.)

The Virgin Mary wears a crimfon robe with blue drapery, and

is feated on the right, holding the Infant Saviour on her knees.. A nimbus encircles her head, and alfo that of a faint (probably

St. Agnes), who ftands on the left, and looks towards the Child,

who places a branch of lilies in her hand. Her drefs is yellow

with an under-robe of white ; Ihe has fair hair, and carries a crooked ftick acrofs her fhoulder. This pifture was formerly in Burlington Street.

Pietro da Cortona was a Florentine, born at Cortona in 1596. At fourteen years of age he was a pupil of Baccio Ciarpi at Rome, but later ftudied much from the works of

RafFaelle. His moft celebrated work is the ceiling of the grand Saloon in the Barberini Palace. The richnefs of the compofition and harmony of colouring render this work one

of the moft perfed fpecimens of art, and one which it is impoflible to contemplate without admiration.

336. Crucifixion . . . Luca Giordano, (1632-1705.)

This pifture (brought from Abbotfbury) is the original Iketch for the pidlure in the Church of St. Agoftino, at Naples. The

figure of Our Saviour is pourtrayed on the Crofs, which is upheld from above by angels. At the foot of the Crofs ftands the Madonna with a nimbus, Mary, the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene (St. John, xix. 25). The other women around are lefs diftindly defined.

Luca Giordano was a gifted but fomewhat carelefs artift, and earned for himfelf the furname of " Fra Prefto " from his rapid execution. His works are of very unequal merit, but are many of them fine in imagination, and well coloured. He was born at Naples, 1632, and became a pupil of Giufeppe DRAWING ROOM. i^c^

Ribera, " called II Spagnoletto," and afTifted Pietro da Cortano, at Rome, in many of his works. Some of his pidures having reached Spain, he was invited to Madrid by Charles II., in 1692, and he was appointed painter to the King. In the fpace of two years he painted in frefco the immenfe ceiling of the church, and the ftaircafe, of the Efcurial. After the death of Charles II., he was retained in the fame capacity by Philip V., and continued to work with fuch rapidity, that there are no lefs than fixty-four pidures catalogued in his name in the Mufeum at Madrid. In 1702, he accompanied Philip V. to Naples, where he was received with diftindlion, and where he died, 1705.

337. Landscape . . . Nicholas PouJJin. (1594-1665.)

This pifture was formerly at Abbot/bury, and reprefents rugged fcenery, hills, a river, and on the right hand are trees in deep-toned colouring.

Nicholas PoufTm was born in Normandy, 1594, and was the brother-in law of Gafpar, who married his fifter, and was then called Pouffin inftead of " Dughet," which was his real name. Nicholas Pouflin was one of the greateft mafters of

the French School. In fpite of many difficulties he vifited Rome while a very young man, and there formed his ftyle

from ftudying bafli relievi, and the works of great mafters. After an abfence of fixteen years he returned to Paris in 1640, and there Louis XIII. wifhed to retain him. In 1642, however, he gave him permiffion to re-vifit Rome, and the King dying fhortly afterwards he never returned to his native country. He continued to increafe in reputation and wealth during twenty-three years, and died at Rome, aged feventy- two. Sir Jofhua Reynolds remarks that Nicholas Pouflin's beft performances have a remarkable drynefs of manner, which need not be recommended for imitation, but perfedlly 200 BELGRAVE SQUARE.

correfpond to the ancient fimplicity which diftinguifhes his ftyle." He excelled in figure painting as much as in landfcape, and at leaft 200 of his pictures have been engraved.

338. Madonna.

Giovanni Battifta Salvia called Sajfoferrato. (1605- 168 5.) This oval pidture was formerly in Burlington Street, and was given to Henry Stephen, third Earl of Ilchefter, by Sir G. O. Paul, Bart.

White drapery paffes over the head and (houlders of the Madonna, who wears a crimfon robe, with blue drapery. She

looks downward, turning to the left. Her hands are clafped together.

Saflbferrato was born at the caflle of SafToferrato, near Urbino, in 1605, and was fo called after his birthplace. He received fome of his infpirations from the Caracci and Bolognefe mafters. He was, however, a painter with originality, and in ftyle and fubje(5ls his works bear refem- blance to thofe of Carlo Dolci. Saffoferrato^s beft produc- tions are frequently Madonnas, many of which are very beautiful. He died at Rome, 1685.

339. Sea View ...... J- Koekkoek. A veflel is reprefented in this fmall pidure, much toffed by the waves. Figures of two or three men in the foreground. Jan Herman Koekkoek, a marine painter, born in Holland in 1778, was the father of three fons, who rank among the excellent painters of the day. The pidures of John Herman Koekkoek are found in many good colledions, and are much efteemed.

340. Sea View. J^oe^/c/coeA., Very rough fea, with a veflel in foreground. Stormy (ky. DRAWING ROOM. 201

341. He NRY Edward, fifth Earl OF Ilc HESTER. Fan der fVeyde. This pidure was painted I 88 I, and is placed on an eafel.

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342. The Marriage of St. Catherine.

HIS pi6lure was formerly in Burlington Street, and is a copy by Pietro da Cortona, from the Cor- reggio, now placed No. 27, in the Louvre.

The Virgin Mary is feated, turned to the right. St. Cathe-

rine receives a ring from the Infant Jefus, who is feated on the

knees of the Virgin. On the right, St. Sebaftian, holding arrows

in his hand, is ftanding behind St. Catherine. In the back-

ground, towards the left of the pidure, is depifted the martyrdom of thefe two faints.

Mrs. Jamefon remarks, in the fecond volume of Sacred " and Legendary Art : The marriage of St. Catherine muft be confidered as a ftridtly devotional fubjed—an allegorical vifion implying the fpiritual union between Chrift and the redeemed Soul. Whatever may be thought of the marriage

of St. Catherine in this myftical fenfe, we muft feel that as a

fubjed of art, it is moft attra6live." The marriage of St. Catherine appears frequently as a fubjeA in early Greek art, but was not reprefented by Italian mafters before the middle of the fifteenth century. In the fixteenth century it became a favourite and popular fubjed. Pietro da Cortona, called alfo Berettini, was a Florentine, painter of born at Cortona, 1596, and became a diftinguifhed the Roman School. His greateft and moft celebrated work D D 202 BELGRAVE SQUARE.

was decorative. The ceiling of the faloon in the Barberini

Palace, his work, is confidered one of the greateft produ6lions ever executed. Pietro da Cortona died at Rome, in 1669.

343. View of the Monastery of Berilda in Toscana. G. Wallis,

Trees and buildings, with a long arched corridor. The figure

of an old man, carrying a ftick, in the foreground.

G. WalHs was the father of J. Wallis. Seguir fays in his Didlionary, that there was a fale of G. Wallis's pidures at Naples, 1806, where Sir William Hamilton was a purchafer.

344. Madonna and Child. ( M/rJ Cy/yy /f-cm^yidaJt^ This pifture reprefents the Virgin Mary feated on a bank.

She is robed in crimfon and blue, fhe turns to the left, and her

right arm is extended picking flowers. The Holy Infant lies partly on the bank, but his head refts on his mother's knees.

345. Venus and Adonis . J. Van der Does. (1623-1673.)

Adonis fleeps, and Cupid approaches him. Venus bends over him. Four dogs in the left-hand corner of the pidlure.

Jacob Van der Does was born at Amsterdam. He ftudied in Italy, and the pi(5lures of Peter van Laer being then in great eftimation at Rome, he attached himfelf to the ftyle of that mafter, and painted with confiderable fuccefs. His figures and animals efpecially have a beauty of touch, which can fcarcely be furpafled. He was of a melancholy difpofition, and his works frequently partake of the gloominefs of his charader.

346. Adoration of the Shepherds. . . . Brina?

This pidlure was brought from Abbotfbury, and is more modern than the drawing feems to indicate. The Infant Chrift NORTH BRAmNG ROOM. 203

lies upon the ground, furrounded by a glory. To the left are three ftiepherds, one bearing a lamb ; to the right are the Virgin Mary and Jofeph.

Sir . Robert Walpole . J. Wootton, (1720-1765.) 1727, in Richmond Park. The eminent ftatefman, celebrated as Prime Minifter to

George I. and to George II. Son of Robert Walpole, Efq., of Houghton, and Mary, daughter of Sir Jeffrey Burwell, of Rougham, S uffolk. Born, 1674; reprefented King's Lynn

in 1700, and ferved for that borough in all parliaments till he

created 1 , was Earl of Orford, except the Seffion of 1 7 1 when he was in the Tower for fix months. In 1707 he had been Secretary at War and Treafurer of the Navy; and in 17 10, he was chofen one of the managers againft Dr. Sacheverel, who had been impeached in the Houfe of Commons owing to his having preached two fermons tending to excite hoftility

againft difi^enters, and who in confequence was fentenced to be fufpended for three years. For this fervice Sir Robert Walpole, with the other managers, received the thanks of the Houfe of Commons. Owing, however, to a change of miniftry, he was employed in no further office during the remainder of the reign of Queen Anne. On the acceffion of into George I. (17 14) to the throne, he was again brought the fervice of his country, and was made Paymafter of the Guards and garrifons at home, and forces abroad, and fworn and of the Privy Council, 17 15, Firft Lord of the Treafury, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Both thefe offices he refigned again conftituted Paymafter in 17 17, but in 1720 he was Chancellor of the General of all His Majefty's Forces, and His Majefty's Exchequer, and in 1723, Secretary of State in the Order of the abfence in Hanover. In 1725 he received ;

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Bath, and in 1726 was eledled a Knight of the Garter, being one of the few Commoners who ever received fuch a diftinc- tion. In 1742 he refigned his offices, and was created Baron

Houghton, Vifcount Walpole, and Earl of Orford. He firft married Catherine Shorter, daughter of John Shorter, Efq., of Bybrook, in Kent, and EHzabeth, daughter of Sir Erafmus PhiUps, of Pidon Caftle, Pembrokefhire, who died 1737, and

by whom he left three fons : Robert, fecond Earl of Orford

Edward, who died unmarried ; and Horace, who fucceeded as fourth Earl on the death of his nephew George, 1791, but never took his feat in the Houfe of Lords, and died 1797. Sir Robert Walpole fecondly married Maria, daughter of Thomas Skerret, Efq., who died very fhortly afterwards, and he himfelf died in March, 1745.

This pifture was formerly in Burlington Street, and reprefents Sir Robert Walpole, drelTed in uniform, with a cocked hat, and a hunting whip in his hand. Three dogs are near him, and on the right hand of the pidure are huntfmen and hounds. See 255. John Wootton was an eminent Englifh painter of landfcapes and animals, and flourifhed about the year 1720. He was a

pupil of J. Wyck, and painted horfes and dogs with great fpirit and accuracy. He painted a pidure of WilHam, Duke of Cumberland, and the routed army near Culloden.

348. Holy Family . Giovanni A, Sogliani. (1481-1533.)

The Infant Saviour is lying in the foreground of the ftable, where juft above Him, animals are feeding. The Virgin Mary in a crimfon robe with green mantle, Jofeph and three angels aie around Him. This old pidure was brought from Abbotf- bury. Giovanni Antonio Sogliani was a native of Florence, and flourifhed about 1530. He ftudied under Lorenzo di Credi, and fubfequently endeavoured to imitate the works of Fra )

STAIRCASE. 205

Bartolommeo. Among his moft efteemed works are " Cain " and Abel in the Cathedral at Parma, and the " Martyrdom of San Arcadio," in the Church of San Lorenzo at Florence.

STAIRCASE.

Nymphs AND Satyr . 349. . After "Titian, (1477-1576.)

HIS pidure was brought from Burlington Street.

350. Sir Stephen Fox, Kt.

Sir Peter Lely. 1 7- ( 6 1 1 6 8 o.

This pidure was originally at Redlynch, and more recently in

Burlington Street. Sir Stephen Fox turns to the left, wears a brown filk robe, with loofe fleeves, and a white lace cravat. Light, flowing, curly wig.

See 62, 73, 241.

Born, 1627 ; married Elizabeth Whittle about 1650. She

died, 1696 ; and Sir Stephen Fox married fecondly, in 1703, Chriftian, daughter of the Rev. Ffrancis Hope, and died in 17 16. Sir Peter Lely was a Weftphalian by birth, and was born in

1 6 17. On the death of Vandyck, 1640, he determined to

vifit England. At firft he painted landfcapes and hiftorical fubjedls, but finding portrait painting much encouraged,

he devoted himfelf entirely to that art, and obtained great fuccefs, which even the tragical events of that period did not impede. Among the many, Oliver Cromwell employed him to paint his portrait. After the Reftoration his bufinefs greatly increafed, and his reputation as a painter of women's portraits was very great. His pidures of men were, generally fpeaking, inferior. Charles II. employed 2o6 BELGRAVE S^ARE,

him to paint the Beauties of the day, and thefe works are

ftill at Hampton Court. Sir Peter Lely died 1680, and was buried in St. Paul's Church, Covent Garden.

351. Hunter, Rider, and Hounds in the Distance.

3C2. of '^^ Picture Three Dogs: 1 t\ r> ^ / 00 \ . Cooper. I D, r (1882.]j Wallace, Robin, and Nixie.'' / \ INDEX OF PAINTERS

INDEX OF PAINTERS.

NOS. Fra, da Fiesole 270 PNGELICO,Anselmi, M.A 334

Bartolommeo, Fra (Baccio della Porta), copies from 268, 284, 305 Bassano, II (Giacomo da Fonte) 324

Battoni, Pompeo ...... • • 1 1 Beach, Thomas 61, 64, 89, 134 Beale, Mary 5©. 54. 57. 72> 127, 189, 245 BiGio, Francia 300, 307 (called Orizzonte) 275 Bloemen, J. F. Van

Brina (?) 346 Bronzino (School) 264, 282, 285 Burr ^^4

Callow 167, 168, 169, 170, 317 Canaletti, Antonio ^9 Canaletti (after) 262, 265 ''^^ Caracci, Ludovico Cardi, Ludovico (called Cigoli) 3^7 Castagna, Andrea del ^97 180 Chandlero . . 70, Claude (Claude Gelee) de Lorraine 333 10 . Clifford, Edward . . . ^ c 2 Cooper, D. ....•••••*•''' Cooper, Samuel •••••*'**'' V 34^ Correggio, Antonio Allegri (copies from) ^94' 29 ,

CORTANO, PiETRO DA ^ r, • COTHS.F • • E E 3

2IO INDEX OF PAINTERS.

NOS.

CuYP, Albert , . lo

DiEPENBECK, A...... 271 (This pi6lure having been moved, now follows 141.) DoLci, Carlo 332

DoLci, Carlo (copy from) . . . .291

ECHARDT , . . , . . 135, 181

Garrard, Marc ...... 48 Ghirlandajo, Domenico ...... 274

Giordano, Luca . 154, 336 GlOTTINO, TOMMASO 292

Giotto da Bondone ...... • 3 1

GODDARD ...... , , . . .161

Graves, Hon. Henry . . . 5i>53

GuERCiNO, Giovanni Francesco ...... 124 GuiDo, Reni ...... 23 Hamilton, G 11,20

Hill, J. . 137 Hogarth, William 40, 106

Holbein, Hans . . . 52, 129

HONDEKOOTER, MeLCHIOR ...... IJJ HONDT, De 331 Hopkins 163

Jannsen, Cornelius 247

Kneller, Sir Godfrey 62, 119, 132

Koeckkoek, J. H. . . '339

Lawrence, Sir Thomas 277 Lely, Sir Peter 55, 116, 152, 350

LiEVENS, J . 7 Linnell, John 59

Liotard, J. S. . 174 Loggan, David ...... 45 LuccATELLi, Andrea 323

LuMLEY, Augustus ...... • .162 LuiNi, Bernardino 43

Lynn, S . .256 INDEX OF PAINTERS, 211

NOS. Mactaggart, Mrs. (copy from Cuyp) 304

Maratti, Carlo ...... , . . , 33o» 335

Marinari, Onario . . , . . . . . , , • 3^S Masaccio (called Tommaso GuiDi) . , . . , , , ,312

Mengs, Raphael (copies from) ...... 310, 314

Neefs, Peter 14 Nelli, Plautilla, Suor ...... 266

Palamedes, Paul (Stevers or Staevarts) ...... ,18

PONTORMO, JaCOPO CaRUCCI DA ...... 286

PoussiN, Caspar . . 13, 17, 281, 326, 328 PoussiN, Nicholas ^55» 337

' Preisler, John Justin ...... -39

Ramsay, Allan . , ...... 37> 97 Read, Catherine ...... 166 Rembrandt, Paul (called Van Rhyn) 16 Reschi (Pandolfo) 287, 288, 290 I72> Reynolds, Sir Joshua . . . 1 . . . . • 3^5 Reynolds, Sir Joshua (copy from) ...... 196,276

Richardson, Jonathan ...... • • .120 Riley, John 3^ 26 Rosa, Salvator ...... • • . 2, 24, Rubens, Peter Paul ^> 254 21 Ruysdael, Jacob . . . . • . • • • • 12, Ruysdael, Solomon ^7

Sarto, Andrea del 3°°, 307

Sassoferrata, Giovanni Battista Salvi . . . . . • • -33^ SCHEDONE, BaRTOLOMMEO ^5 Scott 58, 65 Selwyn, Rev. Townsend 186, 193 ^9^ Selwyn, Miss (copy from Sir Joshua) Snyders, Francis 5 '34^ • Giovanni Antonio . . . . • • • • Sogliani, ^9 Strozzi, Bernardo (called II Cafpucino) 1

212 INDEX OF PAINTERS.

NOS.

Titian ...... 329 Titian (after) 139, 140, 349 3;^^ Trevisani, Francesco ...... 22

Vandyck, Sir Anthony ...... 49, 150

der ...... Van Does, Jacob . , 345 Van de Velde, Adrian ...... 4 Van der Weyde ...... 341 Van Wyck, John ...... 9 Van Schnytkin ...... 156

Verelst, Simon ...... 130 Vinci, Leonardo da (copies from) ...... 298, 299, 311 Vleiger, Simon de 92

Wallis, G. 343 Wallis, Joshua ...... 294, 296, 298, 299, 311 Weenix, Jan ...... 28 Wissing, William 60, 1 5 Whitcombe ...... 66 Wootton, J...... 347 Wouvermans, Philip • • 5

Zeeman, Enoch . 141, 147, 243

Zuccarelli, Francesco . 175 Zucchero, Federigo 38,112 INDEX OF PORTRAITS.

INDEX OF PORTRAITS.

NOS. CLAND, Lady Harriot ..... 29,183,200

AcLAND, Miss Elizabeth Kitty . . . . . '134 Albemarle, George Monck, Duke of 54

Alberoni, Cardinal ...... -39 Ayliffe, Mrs 188, 212 Ayliffe, Miss Judith 206

Bohemia, Elizabeth, Queen of 38

Charles L, King ...... '49 Charles II., King 152 Charlotte, Queen 3*5 Charlotte, Princess of Wales ...... 277 Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of ...... 5^ Clement VII., Pope (Giulio de Medici) 267

Colebrooke, Mrs. (afterwards Lady Henrietta) . . . . • .181

• CoMPTON, Hon. George . . . . • • • • • Cornwallis, Charles, 3RD Lord 248 Cornwallis, Elizabeth, Lady 121, 244, 249

• • • • ^3 Cornwallis, Hon. John . . . . . • Cox, Richard ^5

i'5> ^5^ DiGBY, Edward, 6th Lord . . . . • • • • • *57 DiGBY, Henry, 7TH Lord . . . . • • • • • • DiGBY, Lady Lucy 29 (?), 185 2i6 INDEX OF PORTRJirS,

NOS. DiGBY, Hon. Mary 67

DiGBY, Hon. Mrs 1 20 DiGBY, Hon. William, Dean of Durham ...... 276

Edward VI., King 52 Elizabeth, Queen (Procession of) ...... 48

Essex, Arthur Capel, ist Earl of ...... • 9'

EvREMOND, Charijes St. Denis, Duc de ...... , . .96

Fox, Hon. Charles James . .172 Fox, Charles (son of Sir Stephen Fox, Kt.) .... 83, 158, 190, 246

Fox, Christian, Lady ...... 101, 243 Fox, Elizabeth, Lady 242

Fox, Elizabeth Carr, Mrs...... 160 Fox, Henry (ist Lord Holland) 33, 40, 117, 135, 251

Fox, James (son of Sir Stephen Fox, Kt.) ...... '133

Fox, Hon. Juliana Judith . 199 Fox, Stephen (ist Earl of Ilchester) .... 29, 32, 40, 85, 114,252 Fox, Sir Stephen, Kt. 62, 73, 241, 350

Fox, Stephen (son of Sir Stephen Fox, Kt.) ...... 187 Fox, William (son of Sir Stephen Fox, Kt.) 127, 189

Gartshore, Sarah Jane, Mrs Gentleman of the time of Louis XIV...... 29 George 111., King 3°' Grady, Standish, Esq^, of Capercullen ...... 29

Grafton, Isabella, Duchess OF - ^S^

Hamilton, Hon. Charles ...... 113 Hamilton, Elizabeth, Duchess OF ..... 93j m> ^37? ^79 Hamilton, James, 5th Duke of .110

Henrietta Maria, Queen ...... • . • .150

Henry VI I., King . . . H4 Henry VIIL, King 129

Hervey, John, Lord ...... • • 4^5 Hervey, Mary (Lepell), Lady 37>

Holland, Henry Fox, ist Lord 33> 40> ^ ^7> ^ 35» 251 Hooper, Dr., Bishop of Bath and Wells 97 240 Horner, Susanna, Mrs. Strangways . . 29, 31, 119, 137, 176, 204, 239,

Horner, Miss Elizabeth Strangways . . . 29, 34, 41, 87, 184, 240, 253 INDEX OF PORTRAITS. 217

Ilchester, Elizabeth, ist Countess of . 29. 34. 4'. 1^4. 24C'. 253 Ilchester, Henry Edward, 5th Earl of 53. 34« Ilchester, Henry Stephen, 3rd Earl of 59, 180 Ilchester, Henry Thomas, 2nd Earl of 29, 64, 89, 178, 195 Ilchester, E. A., Mary Countess of 51, loS Ilchester, Mary Theresa, Countess of . 29, 61, 196 ist Ilchester, Stephen, Earl of 2Q, XI. 4.0. 8 I IJ.. 2 C 2

JoNsoN, Ben ...... • >45

Kingston, Elizabeth, Duchess of ...... '74

Leo X., Pope (Giovanni de' Medici) ...... 27^

Long, Mrs. James ...... , • ^^4

Long, Miss ...... S6

Long, Sir Robert, Bart, ...... 5 5

Marlborough, Charles Spencer, 2nd Duke of .... . 40, 201 Mary, Queen ...... 43

Mary, Beatrix d'Este (Queen of James II.) ...... 142

Maurice, Prince ...... • '23

Medici, Giovanni de Bicci de ...... 264 60 Monmouth, James, Duke of ......

More, Sir Thomas ...... • . • • '43

Napier, Lady Sarah ...... • • .165

. follows Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of . . . 217 (now 141)

Northampton, Jane, Countess of ...... • .116,245

O'Brien, William, Esq. 29, 94, 126

2S\ 1 O'Brien, Lady Susan 29, 42, i 66

• .250 Paul, Sir George Onesiphorus, Bart. . . . Percy, Henry, Lord 47 Pool, Mrs.

.21c Ridout, John, Esq^ . . . . • • • • Rupert, Prince -57 F F 2l8 INDEX OF PORTRjm.

NOS.

Stavordale, Henry Stephen, Lord ...... 180

Stavordale, Henry Thomas, Lord ...... 178

Stavordale, Mary, Lady ...... 196 Stavordale, Stephen, Lord ...... 68 Strangways, Lady Charlotte Fox ...... 70,271

Strangways, Miss Elizabeth ...... 179

Strangways, Lady Elizabeth Fox . , ...... 134

Strangways, Colonel Giles ...... 29, 72, 109, 207 Strangways, Mrs. Giles ...... 29, 81, 182 Strangways, Master Giles ...... 44

Strangways, Dame Grace ...... 112 Strangways, Lady Harriet Fox ...... 183,200

Strangways, Miss Howarda ...... 112 Strangways, Sir John ...... *... 78, 102, 118 Strangways, John, Esq^ (son of Colonel Giles) ...... 77

Strangways, John, Esc^(son of Thomas Strangways, Sen.) . . 75, 137, 203

Strangways, Dame Judith ...... 215 Strangways, Miss Judith ...... 98, 202, 208 Strangways, Lady Louisa Fox ...... 70, 272

Strangways, Lady Lucy Fox ...... 185

Strangways, Miss Susanna ...... 176

Strangways, Lady Susan Fox ...... 166 Strangways, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, Sen., with a Family Group, and East

View of Melbury ...... -137 Strangways, Thomas, Esq^, Sen...... 30, 99, 137 Strangways, Mrs. Thomas, Sen...... 36, 100, 137, 149, 197, 216 Strangways, Thomas, Esq,., JuN...... 74,90,137,211 Strangways, Mrs. Thomas, Jun...... 82, 103, 137 Strangways, General Thomas Fox, R.A...... 69

Strangways, Wadham, Esq^ ...... 80

Sundon, . . . Charlotte, Lady ...... 159

Trefusis, Hon. Anne, daughter of ioth Lord St. John, wife of Robert

Cotton Trefusis, Esq...... 29

Van Schnytkin ...... 156 Villemain, The Rev...... 40

Wadham, Dorothy ...... 79 Wadham, Nicholas ...... -Sf ~j INDEX OF PORTRjm. 219

Wales, Charlotte, Princess of ^"^"^

Walpole, Sir Robert .

' * 347 ' ' ' ^55, Watson, Mr. . . ] \ \ WiGAN, Dr., M.D. . . . ! -247 WiNNiNGTON, Right Hon. Thomas . . .

• • Witt, Jean de • • 40> H7

• 4 WoLSEY, Cardinal • . . . . H6

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