Frances Vandewall and her mother Mary Ingram.

Bonham's Old Master Paintings 25 September – 2 October 2024 - Lots 212 and 213.

Portrait of Frances Vandewall, née Ingram, later Mrs George Augustus Killigrew, 

and her mother Mary Ingram nee Bellers.

by William Hoare of Bath (near Eye, Suffolk 1707-1792 Bath).

inscribed 'Mrs Vanderwall' (verso).

pastel.

61 x 45.7cm (24 x 18in).

framed: 83 x 67cm.

Literature.

N. Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, online edition, no. J.395.1342., ill.

 

The sitter, was the daughter of draper Joseph and Mary Ingram of Cheapside, she married Joseph Vandewall (b.1714) in 1737. Joseph died in 1739 at French Ordinary Court in the hospital of Crutched Friars. 

for much more on Samuel Vandewall and the Vandewall family see

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2014/02/samuelvandewall-1719-1761-and-his-wife.html

Frances later married Captain George Augustus Killigrew (1717-1757) in 1753.

Frances Vandewall and Captain George Augustus Killigrew obtained a marriage licence on 27 June 1753 in London.

    

Her will was perhaps proved on 4 April 1765 at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. She may be the Frances Killigrew, widow of Argyle Buildings, Middlesex, whose will was proved 4 April 1765 but could also be the Frances Maria Killigrew, widow of St Marylebone whose will was proved 2 May 1753.

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Mary Ingram (1689 - 17.

Inscribed 'To Mrs Ingram/ Cheapside/ all paid' (verso).

 William Hoare of Bath (near Eye, Suffolk 1707-1792 Bath).

pastel.

61.1 x 47.8cm (24 1/16 x 18 13/16in).

framed: 82.9 x 66.9cm.

Literature.

N. Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, online edition, no. J.395.1341, ill

Bonham's Old Master Paintings 25 September – 2 October 2024  Lot 213.

Mary Bellers was the daughter of the social reformer John Bellers cloth merchant proponent of the “Colledge of Industry.”and Frances Fettipace of London.

The sitter was married to Joseph Ingram (d.1741), a Cheapside Linen Draper 25 July 1710. son of William Ingram, salter at the Bull and Mouth  Quaker Meeting Gracechurch Street

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In his will, dated 8 March 1741, Joseph Ingram left the Hoxton property and any other real estate to his wife Mary (appointed executrix), with an annuity to his sister in law Christabell Ingram (bequeathed originally by his father). 

Bequests to his sons Thomas, Samuel and Robert Ingram and his daughter Frances Vandewall, whose marriage settlement he confirms.'

Date of Death: 21 July 1751 at Coln  St Aldwin, Gloucestershire

 Cause of Death: an inflamation

 Burial: 30 July 1751 at Friends burial ground near Bunhill Fields.

https://wills.qfhs.co.uk/az/wtext/ingram_004.html

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Highlights of Will of Mary Ingram

 £100 to her daughter Frances Vanderwall.

She confirms the marriage settlement made upon her marriage to Joseph Vanderwall, now deceased.

 She leaves all her estate at Hoxton to her son Thomas Ingram as well as all the property left her by her father John Bellers in Wilts, Oxfordshire and Berkshire, her properties in Pennsylvania and West New Jersey, and her leasehold estates at Coln Saint Aldwin.

 She leaves £4000 to her son Samuel Ingram.

 She leaves a £10 annuity to Susanna, the widow of Benjamin Clerk, and Christobell Lund, the wife of Benjamin Lund, both being the daughters of her late husband’s brother Robert Ingram.

 She also leaves an annuity of £10 to Ann Tarbox, the wife of Joseph Tarbox of Winchmore Hill.

 She leaves the rest of her estate to her sons Thomas and Samuel Ingram, whom she names as her Executors.

 Codicil - She leaves her daughter Frances Vanderwall £800, in addition to the legacy in the will.

Transcript available on line - https://wills.qfhs.co.uk/az/wtext/ingram_005.html

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Will of Mary Ingram, Widow of Joseph Ingram of Cheapside, London

 Will 14 July 1749 with Codicil 18 July 1749   Probate 2 August 1751

https://wills.qfhs.co.uk/az/wtext/ingram_005.html

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1737. The marriage of Joseph Vandewall (d.1739) who was Samuel Vandewall's older brother (d.1761) to Frances Ingram daughter of Joseph Ingram of Cheapside, Draper, 

Amongst those at the wedding were the apothecary Silvanus Bevan, Joseph Moore, and many of the Ingram family.

 

1739. – 5 Nov. His older brother Joseph (b. 1714) dies of fever at French Ordinary Court. Crutched Friars, He leaves to his dear wife Frances his personal estate and the reversion of an estate at Greenwich “settled on testator” by his father in law Joseph Ingram on his Marriage.

 

1740. Samuel Vandewall inherits Ravensbourne House and the Copperas works at East Greenwich next to the Ravensbourne at Deptford Creek and also property in Peckham, South London from Joseph Moore, his grandfather on his mothers side. The Gentleman’s Magazine in its usual mercenary manner reports the death of Joseph Moore and estate of £30,000, an immense amount of money at the time. See Public Records Office, Kew London, Will of Joseph Moore. Prob 11/705.

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The Will of Joseph Vandewall, Merchant of Crutched Friars, City of London.

 The Will 2 November 1739, Probate 6 November 1739.

 https://wills.qfhs.co.uk/az/wtext/vandewall_004.html