Monuments in the Church at Edenham, Part 4.

 

 

The Remarkable Group of Funerary Monuments.

in St Michaels Church, Edenham Lincolnshire.

(Part 4).

 

Monument to Robert Bertie.

Erected in 1728

Unusually it signed by both Henry (Hendrik) Scheemakers (1700 - 48) (brother of Peter Scheemakers) and Henry Cheere.

Born in Antwerp, working in London by 1726  premises in St Margarets Westminster adjacent to his brother. In 1727 John van  Nost II apprenticed his son John van Nost III to him at a fee of £40. 

In July 1733 he had a sale of his possessions before departing forever to France where he worked on the Chateaus of Dampierre and St Cloud.

For a useful biog see - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Scheemakers

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Robert Bertie died in 1723, aged 63, son of Robert, Earl of Lindsay and wife Elizabeth née Wharton. 

His first wife was Mary Wynne from Carnarvon, by whom he had 2 sons, Robert and Peregrine, and 3 daughters Elizabeth, Elinora and Mary who died young. his second wife, Albina Farrington gave him 5 sons and one daughter, Norris died as an infant.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

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Monuments in the Church at Edenham, (Part 3).

 

 

The Remarkable Group of Monuments in Saint Michael's Church

Edenham, Lincolnshire.

(Part 3).

Peregrine Bertie, Duke of Ancaster.

Probably sculpted by the Workshop of Henry Cheere.

 

 

 

Peregrine Bertie. Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven,

 Lord Great Chamberlain of England, Died aged 55, in 1741.

 

Shown in Roman dress leaning on an urn with a medallion of Duchess Jane,

née Brownlow.

The pose is adapted from  that used on the 1750 Shakespeare monument by Scheemakers in Westminster Abbey.

They had 3 sons and 4 daughters: Peregrine, Albermarle, Brownlow, Mary, Albina, Jane and Carolina.

 

 

Jane Duchess of Ancaster.

 

Photographs by the Author - 5 May 2015.

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Monuments in the Church at Edenham 2

The Remarkable Group of Monuments

in the St Michael's Church Edenham, Lincolnshire,

(Part 2).

Monument to the third and Fourth Dukes of Ancaster

Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster (1714-1778) married Elizabeth Blundell, and secondly Mary Panton (d.1793). Shown seated holding a cameo of the Duchess. Standing in roman dress is the 4th Duke, Robert Bertie (1756-1779).He never married, and died of Scarlet Fever.
Monument by Charles Harris of London.

For Charles Harris and his workshop on the Strand see -

http://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/charles-harris-catalogue.html