The enormously rich
Quaker Vandewall / Neate family of Greenwich and Lindsey House, Lincolns Inn
Fields have appeared several times in the blog.
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 (who was 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
https://www.bonhams.com/auction/29809/lot/213/william-hoare-of-bath-near-eye-suffolk-1707-1792-bath-portrait-of-mary-ingram-nee-bellers-in-a-brown-dress-white-bonnet-and-fichu-framed-829-x-669cm/
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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.
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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 dated 2 November 1739, Probate 6 November 1739.
https://wills.qfhs.co.uk/az/wtext/vandewall_004.html
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Samuel Vandewall
Thomas Hudson.
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Joseph Moore Vandewall (1745 - 1748).
The infant son and only child of Samuel and Martha Vandewall (nee Barrow)..
Joshua Reynolds.
1745. – 26 July - Joseph Moore Vandewall was born at Brabant
Court, in the City of London, the child in the portrait by Joshua Reynolds.
1748. – 28 Feb – Joseph Moore Vandewall died of teething.
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Thomas and Charlotte Neate with their Tutor Thomas Needham
by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Signed and
dated Joshua Reynolds pinxit 1748.
Currently on Display in the Metropolitan Museum, New York.
A Transcription from the Walpole Society Journal 6 (1917
-18) - "Two Early works of Sir Joshua Reynolds. pp105.
"This seems to have been the first composition of several
figures which Reynolds attempted. Its success must have spurred him on to
attempt a similar feat on a larger scale........
Of the artist's relations with the Neate family and the
conditions under which the picture was painted we know almost nothing. There is
a tradition in the Neate family that the father of the two children was a
friend of the young artist, and a diary once in the possession of Miss Eleanor
Neate recorded a payment to Reynolds for a portrait, but the sum mentioned was
thought too small to apply to this portrait group. An old label on the back of
the picture gives us a little help it says :
'Boy the paternal grandfather of the Rev. A. Neate. Girl
sister of the above married - - Williams of ...., Esq. re Tall figure Needham
tutor of the Boy. Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds'.
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Thomas Neate.
The boy in the Reynolds family portrait.
Son of Harris Neate and Martha Barrow and stepson of Samuel Vandewall.
1791 - 1796. Thomas Neate resided at 13 Lansdown Crescent,
Bath (info. from Bath archives. - Bath Loyal Ass. 1792).
1794. Death of Martha Vandewall at her house in Bath. She was buried at Jordans (Quaker) Meeting House Burial Ground, Buckinghamshire in the vault of Sam.Vandewall.
1796. Amelia daughter of Thomas Neate described in The
monthly Magazine as of Binfield, marries AE Young at Orlingbury, Northants
1825. Death of Thomas Neate at Binfield Lodge, Berks.
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Another Vandewall related portrait by Benjamin West (1738 -1820).
John Williams of Panthowell, Llandegfan, Carmarthen, South Wales.
Oil on canvas, 31 3/4 x 42 1/2 inches (oval)
Signed and dated at lower left: “B. West PINXIT/1766”
In 1766 John Williams married Martha Neate daughter of Martha Neate (nee Barrow) widow of Harris Neate who after his death married Samuel Vandewall.
The photographs used here from the website of The Schwarz Gallery of Philadelphia.
https://www.schwarzgallery.com/painting/5694/
The house of Panthowell, Trelech a'r Betws, Carmarthenshire,
was owned by the Williams family for nearly three centuries. John Williams (d.
1773) was the last of the male line at Panthowell.
The property passed
to his daughter Margarette Vandewall Williams, who married the Rev. William
Shippen Willes, of Cirencester, (d. 1822) in 1797; their son, William Willes,
inherited the estate.
By 1831, the estate consisted of Panthowell, Panthowell
Mill, Crug y denyon and Ffynnon Sais. In 1834 the estate was sold to Lt-Col
Thomas Samuel Nicholls (1787-1857), of Tenby, Pembrokeshire.
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Mrs Martha Vandewall.
Benjamin West.
c.1766.
32 x 42 1/2 inches (81.3 x 108 cm).
Gifted to Philidelphia Museum of Art, 2004.
https://www.philamuseum.org/objects/95983
The portrait of Mrs Vandewall by Benjamin West was sold by
Sotheby, Lot 138, 3 May 1961, from the collection of W.H.Willes, (a descendant
of Martha Neate),
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The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107.
Staley/von Erffa Benjamin West Archive, 1940-2000. Box 32 -3 - Vandewall here is mis spelled Vanderwall.
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see -
https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2014/02/samuelvandewall-1719-1761-and-his-wife.html
https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-william-seward-martha-vandewall.html
https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2014/01/
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Portrait of Mrs Neate, of Donnington? by George Knapton
(1698-1778).
this date must be prior to 1744 when she married Samuel Vandewall.
Portrait of Mrs
Neate, of Donnington, Hampshire, half-length, in an embroidered silver shawl
trimmed with fur, seated by a table with a spaniel her lap, in an interior,
beside a polescreen,
Oil on canvas 40 x 50 in. (101 x 127 cm.)
In a carved and gilded 18th Century Maratta frame.
By descent in the family of the sitter?
Sold Christies - Lot 28,
Christie's -Nov 25, 2003 - London.
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Charlotte Neate (1740 - ), nee Seward, the wife of Thomas Neate.
Anonymous artist.
This portrait was still with the family when I took the photographs.
Charlotte Seward was the sister of Elizabeth Seward and Dorothy nee Seward Kenrick and of the writer William Seward. Their father was a partner in Calvert
and Seward of the Peacock Brewery in Red Cross St, London, in what was the largest
brewers in London in the mid 18th Century.
On
the 5 April 1771 - Thomas Neate, aged 31 married Charlotte Seward sister of
William Seward of Red Cross St, London.
1771. Marriage of Thomas Neate to Charlotte Seward, the
sister of William Seward, of Red Cross St. London.
1790. Gentleman's Magazine notes Thomas Neate was in residence at Binfield.
The label on the back of the portrait - both photographs by the author.
with very grateful thanks to the owner.
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William Seward.
Robert Edge Pine.
pre 1784 when Pine left for America.
https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2014/02/william-seward-1747-99-and-bust-of.html
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