The enormously rich
Quaker Vandewall / Neate family of Rvensbourne House and the Copperas works at Greenwich and Lindsey House, Lincolns Inn
Fields have appeared several times in the blog.
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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 linen draper Joseph and Mary Ingram of Cheapside, she married Joseph Vandewall (b.1714) in 1737. Joseph Vandewall died in 1739 at French Ordinary Court in the hospital of Crutched Friars.
Harris Neate (see below) was a witness to his will.
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 remarried to 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).
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.”
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 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
Will of Mary Ingram, Widow of Joseph Ingram of Cheapside,
London.
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 he also inherits 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.
https://wills.qfhs.co.uk/az/wtext/vandewall_004.html
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Samuel Vandewall.
Thomas Hudson.
Joshua Reynold was working as an assstant in the studio of Thomas Hudson by Autumn of 1740.
Samuel Vandewall.
The Portrait attributed to George Knapton.
6 January 1734 - Harris Neate, described as of the Island of
Jamaica married Martha Barrow daughter of Jonathan Barrow of the county of
Monmouth.
1740 - 11 April, Thomas Neate, was born at Laurence Pountney Hill, City of London.
6 September 1742 - Harris Neate of the Parish of St
Lawrence Jewry, died of a fever and is buried at Friends Burial Ground, Long
Lane. London.
His wife Martha Barrow had a brother Francis Barrow who was died at
Charleston in America on 12 July 1750, leaving his estate to Samuel Vandewall,
see South Carolina Wills. p 47.
Harris Neate and Slavery - an unsavoury press cutting.
1743 - Saturday, June 18, Daily Advertiser, London, England,
Issue 3874.
1747. Joseph Moore Vandewall was painted by Joshua Reynolds. This painting sold by Christie's London 1 December 2000, lot 31.
Provenance - by descent to Commander C.E. Neate; Sotheby's London, 3 July 1956, lot 31, (1,350 gns. to Agnews).
It was sold by Agnews to Vice-Admiral B.C.B. Brooke,
1957. It was acquired through Agnews by Sir Michael Sobell, 1959.
See - D. Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds, A Complete Catalogue
of his Paintings, London, 2000, p. 452, no. 1785, fig. 27.
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 (d.1906) (daughter of the Rev Arthur Neate Rector of Alvescot and Eleanor Burnaby) 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'.
This payment almost certainly refers to the portrait of the infant Joseph Moore Vandewall.
I would dearly like to find this diary.
It is interesting to surmise the relationship of Samuel Vandewallwith
other members of the St Martin's Lane artistic community including architect
Isaac Ware, who was the architect for the division of Lindsay House, (purchased by
Samuel Vandewall in 1752), and Hogarth to whose prints he later subscribed, and the other members of the artistic community who constructed his furniture and who supplied his pictures.
1751. Samuel Vandewall subscribes to two engravings by William
Hogarth of Paul before Felix and Moses brought to Pharoah’s Daughter – The
subscription ticket – an engraving entitled Paul before Felix (Burlesqued) was
advertised in The General Advertiser, 15 May 1751.
Perhaps the pocket book mentioned in the Walpole Society Journal in 1916, once in the possession of Eleanore Neate and recording a payment to Joshua Reynolds for the portrait of Joseph Vandewall still exists somewhere and will one day reappear. One can only hope!
It is an unusual portrait in that it prominently shows the
children's tutor Thomas Needham. Samuel Vandewall left in his will, to Mr
Thomas Needham of Clifford’s Inn. Gent. £800.
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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).
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Another Vandewall related portrait by Benjamin West (1738 -1820).
John Williams (d.1773) 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.
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.
There is a reference to John Williams and the cutting of an inscription by Joseph Wilton at theRoyal Academy in 1773
Mrs Martha Vandewall nee Barrow.
formerly Mrs Harris Neate.
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).
November 1744, Samuel Vandewall married`Martha Neate the widow of
Harris Neate, nee Barrow at the Hereford, Worcester and Wales, Quaker Meeting
House.
I have also found a reference to the celebration of the Vandewall - Neate
marriage in the Daily Advertiser, 23 November 1744: 'Yesterday was married at
the Quakers Meeting at Devonshire Square, Mr.Samuel Vandewall, a Merchant of
this City, to Mrs. Martha Neate, Widow and Relict of Mr.Harris Neate, late an
eminent West-India Merchant of this City, a beautiful Lady, with a handsome
Fortune.'
Amongst those present were Samuel Hoare, Hannah Harman,
Grizzel Hoare (nee Gurnell), Thomas Gurnell, John Barclay, Thomas Samuel and
Mary Ingram, Sarah Gurnell, Gabriel and Margaret Goldeney, William Markes,
Sarah Nichols, Frances, Daniel, Anna, Sarah, and Elizabeth Vandewall, Anthony
Neate, Nathaniel and Elizabeth Newberry, William and Jane Lorance, Thomas and
George Marishall, Thomas and Ann Hyam, Michael Russell etc.
The London Evening Post reported on Thursday 22 November
1744, issue 2660 “Last Thursday was married at the Quaker Meeting in Devonshire
Street, Mr Vandewall an eminent merchant to Mrs Neate, widow of Mr Harris
Neate, a West India merchant, an agreeable lady with a large fortune, after the
ceremony was over there was an elegant entertainment prepar'd at the White Lion
Tavern in Cornhill, consisting of 60 dishes where 110 persons sat for
dinner” It was again reported in the
General Advertiser 23 November 1744 issue 3129 using the same wording.
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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 and took his surname.
It might be co incidence but a spaniel appears on the portrait of the infant Joseph Moore Vandewall (1745 - 48) by Joshua Reynolds (image above).
In a carved and gilded 18th Century Maratta frame.
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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 then 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.
Their son Thomas was born in 1775 later to become the Rev. Thomas Neate
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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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Vandewall related documents - Oxfordshire History Centre.
https://heritagesearch.oxfordshire.gov.uk/records/E8
Ref. E8/8/D/1-2 - https://heritagesearch.oxfordshire.gov.uk/records/E8/8/D/1-2
Lease and Release 30/Dec/1751-31/Dec/1751.
Parties:
1. Silvanus Bevan of London, apothecary, and Walter Coleman
of Black Fryars, London, woollen draper
2. Frances Vaudewall of Bloomsbury, Middx., widow
3. Samuel Vaudewall of East Greenwich, Kent, Esq.
Property: Moiety of seven messuages and lands in St.Giles
without Cripple Gate, Middx., eight messuages and lands in Whitecross St.,
St.Giles, messuage with summer house, messuage in Gloucester Court, ten
messuages in Crown Court, Whitecross st., messuages and lands in Whites yard,
eight messuages in and near Basket alley near Golden Lane, eight messuages and
lands in Carpenters Yard, Whitecross st., three messuages and lands in Golden
Lane, thirteen cottages or almshouses in Golden lane, St. Giles, in the
Lordship of Finsbury; parties 1. and 2. convey to 3.
Comments: deed recites details of Lease and Release dated
12/13 Aug 1737.
