continued from my previous post.
The Historicising Bust of Sir James Rushout (1625 -1698).
St Peter and St Paul, Parish Church of Blockley, Gloucestershire.
To my eye the least successful of the five Rushout busts. This bust is very unusual in that it is marred by a grey vein which runs through the marble and is plainly visible on both sides of the face. It is inexplicable why such a poor block of marble should have been chosen.
continued from my previous post.
Part 6.
Alice Pitt (1651 - 1698).
wife of Sir James Rushout.
St Peter and St Paul, Parish Church of Blockley, Gloucestershire.
Alice Pitt, daughter of Edmund Pitt of Sudbury Court, Harrow in Middlesex.
By the 15th of May 1664 she had married Edward Palmer, son of Geoffrey Palmer and his wife, Margaret Moore. The marriage was childless and Edward died in 1667, being buried at East Carlton on the 14th of August.
Around 1670 Alice married Sir James Rushout Bart., son of
fishmonger, John Rushout, and his wife, Abigail Godschalk.They were
parents of five sons and four daughters.
The question remains as to who sculpted this and the other four busts on the Rushout Monument -
Rysbrack or Moore?
I am leaning towards Moore who inscribed the monument.
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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
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of Tangential interest -
Part 4.
Continued from my previous post.
The Marble bust of Sir John Rushout (1685 - 1775).
St Peter and St Paul, Parish Church of Blockley,
Gloucestershire.
The sitter was the son of Sir James Rushout, 1st Bt., of Milnst-Maylards, Essex, and succeeded his nephew Sir James Rushout, in 1711.
He was Member of Parliament for Malmesbury (elected 1713 and again in 1715), then for Malmesbury and Evesham (elected in 1722), and continued to represent Evesham, having been unseated in Malmesbury, until he retired from parliament in 1768.
In the House of Commons he spoke frequently against the measures of Sir Robert Walpole and was one of the committee put together to investigate Walpole's conduct in 1742.
He held the lucrative office of Treasurer to the Navy in 1743 and was appointed a member of the Privy Council in the following year.
He married Lady Anne, Daughter of George Compton, 4th Earl of
Northampton, and was succeeded by his only son John, of Northwick Park,
Worcestershire, who was created 1st Baron Northwick.
signed and dated 'GK[in a monogram]neller. f/1716' (lower
right).
Provenance -
The sitter;
The sitter's son Sir John Rushout 5th Bt created Lord
Northwick (1738 - 1800),
Northwick Park, Gloucestershire;
By inheritance to Captain E.G. Spencer-Churchill MC,
Northwick Park;
His sale Christie's, June 25 1965. Lot 56 (140 gns).
Literature.
A Catalogue of the Pictures, Works of Art etc. at Northwick
Park 1864 reprinted 1908 no.284
Tancred Borenius A Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures
at Northwick Park 1921 no.335
J. Douglas Stewart Sir Godfrey Knellerand the English
Baroque Portrait Oxford 1983/>.127 cat.
no. 628
Continued from my previous posts.
The Bust of Elizabeth Compton, Countess of Northampton (1683 - 1750).
Third Daughter of Sir James Rushout (1644 - 1698) (on the right of the monument).
St Peter and St Paul Parish Church, Blockley.
Photographs here taken by the author in the low light of late afternoon
(balanced precariously whilst standing on a chair).
