Blickling Hall Illustrated Picture List Oliver Cromwell, James I, Sir Henry Hobart, 4th Bt, English School, 18th century, after Samuel Cooper English School, 17th century attributed to William Wissing or Sir Godfrey Kneller Endowed Grammar Schools’ were @CLC?QF OGEFQ J?LBGLE: The Great Hall chiefly done from his father’s drawings. ELEJGPF SAFMMJ, 16th century, Later works were entirely his own. after HMJ@CGL (1497/8–1543) SMALLER PICTURES Henry VIII (1491–1547) @CLC?QF JCDQ J?LBGLE: [CMS355468] ?@MSC JCDQ-F?LB BMMO: ELEJGPF SAFMMJ, 17th century One of several copies of a lost ELEJGPF SAFMMJ, 18th century, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham original. From Newbattle Abbey. after S?KRCJ CMMNCO (c.1608–72) (1592–1628) Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658) [CMS355467] ML OGEFQ NGCO: [CMS355469] The favourite of James I and VI. A After FO?LAGP CMQCP (1726–70) The original miniature is in the copy derived from the Mytens full- John, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire Buccleuch Collection. length of 1626, at Euston Hall, Suffolk. (1723–93) [CMS355570] ML JCDQ NGCO: ?OMRLB ACLQO?J TGLBMT: Remodelled Blickling in Jacobean style ELEJGPF SAFMMJ, 17th century ELEJGPF SAFMMJ, 17th century and built the Orangery. The signed James I (1566–1625) Sir James Hobart (1436–1507) original of 1766, is at Melbourne Hall, [CMS355471] [CMS355510] Derbyshire. Francis Cotes first made A small copy of the large state portrait Attorney-General to Henry VII and his mark in 1748 as a pastellist. He was by Daniel Mytens, known only from this Lord Chief Justice. Sir Henry Hobart’s a pupil of George Knapton, but used and other replicas. One of the Lothian most distinguished ancestor. An brighter colour than his master, and pictures from Newbattle Abbey, which imaginary portrait in the dress of a later shows the influence of Carriera and can mostly be identified by the period, so possibly originally of another Liotard. During the 1760s he worked inventory numbers painted on them. sitter altogether. There is a version in more in oils and adopted Reynolds’s the Norwich Civic Portrait Collection. portrait style in contrast to the more JMFL CFCPPCJJ BRAIJCO (1793–1894) conservative patterns of Knapton. He The Great Hall, 1820 ELEJGPF SAFMMJ, 17th or 18th century was a founder member of the RA. Watercolour Sir James Hobart (1436–1507) and his (1768). His house and studio in [CMS355551] third Wife, Margaret Naunton (d.1494) Cavendish Square were taken over by Showing William Ivory’s 1767 [CMS355513] a later rival of Reynolds, George rearrangement of the Jacobean A copy of a window at Loddon church, Romney. staircase, painted white. The artist was which commemorates its rebuilding the eldest son of John Buckler by Sir James. It is shown in the ?@MSC OGEFQ-F?LB BMMO: (1770–1851), whose interest in background, together with St Olave’s ELEJGPF SAFMMJ 18th century, sketching and architectural Bridge, which was built by his wife. after S?KRCJ CMMNCO (c.1608–72) draughtsmanship he shared. He General George Monck, 1st Duke of exhibited at the Royal Academy Attributed to WGJJG?K WGPPGLE Albemarle (1608–70) between 1810–44, mainly views of (1653–87) or Sir GMBDOCV KLCJJCO [CMS355470] churches, ruins and country houses. (1646/9–1723) Masterminded the restoration of His ‘Views of Cathedral Churches in Sir Henry Hobart, 4th Bt (1658–98) Charles II in 1660. The original England’ (1822) were largely copied [CMS355509] miniature is in the Buccleuch from his father’s previously published The victim of the notorious Cawston Collection. prints, whilst his ‘Views of Eaton Hall’ duel, and father of the 1st Earl of in 1826, and in 1827 ‘Sixty Views of Buckinghamshire. 1 The Great Hall, by J.C. Buckler FULL-LENGTH PICTURES RNNCO JCSCJ (AJMAITGPC): Colonel Harbord Cropley Harbord, MP (?) Sir John Cope (1690–1760) (?1675–1742) Twelve of a series mostly [CMS 355481] [CMS 355555] commissioned from William Aikman Lieutenant-Colonel of the 1st Horse MP for Norfolk 1728–34, and an (1682–1731) by Lord Hobart, later 1st Grenadier Guards at this period. MP ancestor of Lady Caroline Hobart’s Earl of Buckinghamshire, for the Long for Liskeard in 1727–34 and a political husband, the 2nd Baron Suffield. Gallery, in 1729–32. The identity of the crony of Hobart. He was decisively sitters derives from the 1793 inventory defeated by the Jacobites at Studio of CF?OJCP JCOS?P (c.1675–1739) and is in some cases tentative. Many Prestonpans in 1745. Charles, 2nd Viscount Townshend are in unusually rich ‘Kentian’ frames, (1674–1738) as are other portraits that once hung Sir Robert Walpole, KG (1676–1745) [CMS 355482] in the Long Gallery elsewhere in the [CMS 355487] The noted agricultural pioneer and house: George II on horseback; The Prime Minister and builder of politician. Henrietta, Countess of Suffolk and Sir Houghton Hall; wearing the John Maynard. William Aikman was Chancellor of the Exchequer’s robes. WGJJG?K AGIK?L (1682–1731) born and trained in Scotland, the son William Morden, MP (?1696–1770), 1729 of a laird. After five years in Italy and Sir Thomas Coke, KB, Lord Lovel [CMS 355486] Turkey, he settled in Edinburgh in 1712, (1697–1759) Brother-in-law of Sir John Hobart, 1st but after Kneller’s death in 1723, he [CMS 355552] Earl of Buckinghamshire, he assumed moved to London. The builder of Holkham Hall, he was the name and arms of his uncle created the Earl of Leicester in 1744. Harbord in 1742, the year in which he RLBCO JCDQ PQ?GOP: began Gunton Hall, where there is a WGJJG?K AGIK?L (1682–1731) Sir William Leman, 2nd Bt (d.1741 or later portrait of him in a similar frame. (?) Sir Thomas Sebright, 4th Bt 1744), 1729 (1692–1736) or (?) Mr Crawley [CMS 355566] [CMS 355553/355605] Leman held considerable property in Sebright was a Tory, but his reputation Suffolk. He stands before the Piazza at as a book collector brought him into Covent Garden. Hobart’s Whig circle. A portrait of Mr Crawley was mentioned by a visitor General Sir Robert Rich, 4th Bt who saw the pictures in 1741. (1685–1768), 1729 [CMS 355567] RLBCO OGEFQ PQ?GOP: Of Roos Hall, Suffolk, Rich is shown as Edmund Prideaux (1693–1745) Colonel of the 8th Dragoon Guards. [CMS 355554] He sat for Hobart’s pocket borough in A university friend of Hobart and a Devon, Bere Alston, in 1724 to 1727, bibliophile, he drew views of Blickling and from 1727 to 1741 he succeeded c.1727. His home, Prideaux Place, him as MP for St Ives, Cornwall. Padstow, appears in the background. 2 Lady’s Cottage, c.1780, by Humphry Repton HRKNFOV RCNQML (1752–1818) The Lobby Lady’s Cottage, c.1780 The Brown [CMS 353598] Drawing Room JCDQ T?JJ: Built for Caroline Conolly, Countess of (?) AJCU?LBCO N?PKVQF (1758–1840) Buckinghamshire, in 1780/1. On the Newbattle Abbey right is the fountain from Oxnead Hall LMOQF T?JJ, JCDQ QM OGEFQ: Gouache now at the centre of the Parterre. Studio of Sir ALQFMLV V?L DVAI [CMS 355497] Humphrey Repton was born in Bury St (1599–1641) The ancestral home of the Lothians in Edmunds, Suffolk. The successor to Elizabeth Howard (1613–48 or after) Midlothian. Born and trained as a Capability Brown, he completed the [CMS 355485] portrait painter in Edinburgh, when in change from the formal gardens of Granddaughter of the influential Italy in 1782–85 and afterwards, the early 18th century to the Katherine Knyvett, Countess of Nasmyth turned increasingly to picturesque, and coined the phrase Suffolk, and daughter of Sir Charles landscape in both oils and ‘landscape gardening’. He is famous Howard and the much-married Mary watercolour, also setting up a drawing for the ‘red books’, in which he Fitz of Fitzford. She was procured a school. He became a close friend, and presented ‘before’ and ‘after’ views of place as Maid of Honour to Queen painted two portraits, of Robert parks and gardens to potential clients Henrietta Maria by her grandmother. Burns. His six daughters and a son, (eg for Sheringham Hall in Norfolk). The last record of her is carrying Patrick (1787–1831), perpetuated his He also wrote Observations on the letters for her exiled royal mistress, style of landscape; another son, James Theory and Practice of Landscape and a warrant issued by Parliament for (1808–90), became a celebrated Gardening (1803). He is buried in the her arrest. engineer and inventor. churchyard in Aylsham. After SGO ALQFMLV V?L DVAI ? AJCU?LBCO N?PKVQF (1758–1840) (1599–1641) Highland Scenery Charles I (1600–49) and Prince Charles Gouache (1630–85) [CMS 355496] A contemporary copy of Van Dyck’s ‘Great Piece’ of 1632, without the OGEFQ T?JJ: figures of the Queen and Princess J?KCP CMO@OGBEC Mary. Survey of the Parish of Blickling, 1729 [CMS 355514] [CMS 353584] Queen Henrietta Maria (1609–69) Shows the ‘goose-foot’ pattern of [CMS 355545] woodland rides that radiated from the The consort of Charles I. The original west front of the house. is at Windsor. ML PMRQF T?JJ: JMFL MGAF?CJ WOGEFQ (1617–94) An Unknown Young Woman, c.1660 [CMS 355526] 3 James Stanley, Lord Strange, Charlotte de la Trémoille, Constance, Marchioness of Lothian, attributed to Michiel Miereveldt attributed to Michiel Miereveldt by Sir John Leslie Attributed to MGAFGCJ MGCOCSCJBQ Sir JMFL LCPJGC, 1st Bt (1822–1916) DGOCNJ?AC T?JJ: (1567–1641) Lady Constance Talbot, Marchioness Studio of or after, SGO ALQFMLV James Stanley, Lord Strange (1606–51) of Lothian (1836–1901) V?L DVAI (1599–1641) [CMS 355478] [CMS 355493] The Hon.