Continued from my previous post.
Part 5.
Lady Ann Compton (1695 - 1766).
Wife of Sir John Rushout.
Fourth Daughter of the Earl of Compton.
St Peter and St Paul, Parish Church of Blockley, Gloucestershire.
Lady Anne Compton (d.1747), Lady Rushout.
128.3 x 101.6 cms.
Signed and dated, bottom right: A Ramsay 1743.
at Chirk Castle, Chirk, Wrexham, Wales.
National Trust.
Anne was the daughter of George Compton, 4th Earl of
Northampton, and the wife of Sir John Rushout, 4th Bt. of Northwick Park and
Harrow whom she married in 1729. Their daughter Elizabeth Rushout (No. 45, 80
and 93) married Richard Myddelton of Chirk (79) in 1761.
By descent in the Myddelton family - in house catalogue, c.1900, in Drawing Room (shown on diagrammatic hang [west wall, above left door] and manuscript picture list) as “11. Lady Ann Rushout.” - until with some of the contents, in 1978, that were acquired along with Chirk Castle from Lt-Colonel Ririd Myddelton (1902–1988) by the National Land Fund and handed, on loan for 99 years, to the Secretary of State for Wales (In 1981 Chirk was transferred into the ownership of the National Trust).
Purchased by the National
Trust from Mr Guy Myddelton in 2023.
Image courtesy art uk website.
https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/lady-anne-compton-d-1747-lady-rushout-99459
For this portrait see also -
https://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/1171133
...................
of Tangential interest -
No comments:
Post a Comment