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

Thomas King Marble Mason of Bath Part 2

 

First draft.

Thomas King (1741 - 1804). Marble Mason

The following paragraphs adapted from -

https://www.bathabbeymemorials.org.uk/sculptor/t-king

https://gunnis.henry-moore.org/henrymoore/sculptor/browserecord.php?-action=browse&-recid=1553&from_list=true&x=10

For an useful overview of the Monumental Masons in Bath in the 18th and 19th Centuries by Kim Jordan.

https://historyofbath.org/images/ProceedingsPDFs/PROCEEDINGS%2008%202019-20.pdf

Thomas King (1741-1804), was the founder of one of the most prolific west country firms of monumental masons, he was the son of Henry King, a clockmaker of St Dunstan-in-the-West in the City of London. His son continued the business into the 19th century.

Thomas was apprenticed on 26 March 1752 to Charles Saunders? a London mason, but settled in Bath soon after completing his apprenticeship which would have been for seven years. 

I can find no record of a Charles Saunders - but William Saunders fl.1743 - 54 was a London mason who worked on the reconstruction of Leicester House (Biog Dictionary British Sculptors pub Yale 2009) with an address in Windmill Street.

He married Elizabeth, the daughter of Thomas Paty of Bristol on 6 May 1779 at St Augustine the Less, Bristol. 

The Paty family were architects and masons, responsible for Royal Fort, The Bristol Exchange, Bristol Bridge and many monuments. The Paty family was a prominent multi-generational dynasty of masons, surveyors, and architects based in 18th-century Bristol, originating from Somerset stonemasons and carvers who established workshops in Bristol at the Horsefair and Limekiln Lane.

For an introduction to the Paty family and to be treated with caution (generated by AI) see - https://grokipedia.com/page/william_paty#biography

King maintained cordial relations with the Paty family and was left £250 in his father-in-law’s will. When his brother-in-law, William Paty, died, clients were instructed to forward outstanding debts to King. see - (Felix Farley’s Bristol Journal, 4 April 1801).

King had three children, Thomas and Charles, who entered the business, and Mary, who did not marry during his lifetime.

 

The firm produced a large number of small, wall monuments, often incorporating coloured marbles in an elegant oval, rectangular or inverted shield frame. Most were sold to clients from stock. 

Thomas used the customary range of neoclassical motifs: urns, sarcophagi, willow trees, mourning women, crumpled scrolls held by cherubs and broken columns.

Thomas Gainsborough’s account at Hoare’s Bank records a payment of 18 guineas made to Thomas King in May 1771, perhaps for a picture frame (Gunnis).

 

King also worked on bespoke commissions, such as his first memorial to James Quin with a portrait medallion of the actor of 1769. 

His memorial to Robert Walsh in Bath Abbey has a relief of a broken Ionic column clad with yew on an oval ground of streaked grey marble. It has been suggested that this was the first time the broken column, a traditional symbol of Fortitude, was employed alone on a monument. 

Richard Warner, in his History of Bath, 1801, considered the monument the ‘most remarkable for happiness of design in the whole Abbey’.

His memorials for Venanzio Rauzzini and Sir Nigel Gresley are framed with deep swathes of fabric brought together with three knots.

 

King died a prosperous man and left his widow a number of properties in Bath, including offices, a garden and a yard ‘now in my own occupation’ at Beaufort Place, Walcot. His three children received generous bequests. 

He is buried at Woolley, where a modest tablet, for which he earmarked 20 guineas in his will, bears the epitaph: 

‘Many Years an eminent statuary in the parish of Walcot, who after sustaining a long and painful illness with exemplary fortitude and resignation, calmly departed this life December the 5th, 1804, in his 63rd. year.

The will of ‘Thomas King, Gentleman of Walcot, Somerset’, PROB 11/1427, proved July 1805.

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Thomas King, Statuary, nr. Walcot Turnpike. London Road, Bath.

 Thomas King senior served his apprenticeship with the Mason’s Company of London then established his business in Lansdown, Bath in the early 1760’s. 

Later he set up a marble yard and workshops at Snow Hill at the junction with London Road by the Walcot Turnpike. It was sufficiently significant to be recorded on Harcourt Masters’ 1794 map of the city.

 

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Some refs to King in the Bath press -

 

Bath Chronicle - 16 February 1786 - Thomas King statuary - marble chimney pieces £6 to £60. Monuments 8 guin to 50 guin.

 Bath Chronicle - 13 April 1786 - Goods: marble chimney pieces, fitted for sale etc at Thomas King's, statuary nr Walcot turnpike.

 Bath Chronicle - 8 Jun 1786 - Goods: For sale marble - chimney pieces. Small monuments for inspection enq T King, statuary nr Walcot turnpike.

 Bath Chronicle -  27 March 1794 - Bath turnpike roads - general meeting of Trustees at the Guildhall on 5 April at 12 noon. To consider removal of present tollbar on London Road at or near Mr King's marble yard in Walcot.

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William Reeves foreman to Thomas King.

see my previous post

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2026/03/reeves-of-bath-statuary-and-monumental.html

Bath Chronicle - 18 October 1792  - Wm Reeves, marble mason carver etc, many years foreman to Mr King, has opened a yard in James Street, Kingsmead. Monuments, chimney pieces etc.

Premises at 6 & 7 King Street (presumably old King St) from 1792 to 1826 were used by William Reeves probably as his residence

The Kings and the Reeves were the most successful monumental masons in the late 18th and early to mid 19th centuries with the Biggs and Lancashires offering competition in the heyday of the trade.

The Greenways and Thomas King.

There is an indenture of 20 September 1791, when Thomas King, the statuary of Walcot, with Mr.Charles Harford, gent., as his trustee, conveyed to John Greenway in trust for Francis Greenway, mason, of Walcot (not the transported Australian architect), who would have been only thirteen at the time], ‘part of a pasture of 2a 22p called Upper Tyning [Walcot], being all those plots on the west side of an intended building called Mount Pleasant and all those two messuages thereon erecting at the cost of Francis Greenway.