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Half-length, full face in oval, dressed in a low neck yellow gown, trimmed with white chiffon. Hair worn in loose curls around the neck. Foliage and landscape background. | Half-length, full face in oval, dressed in a low neck yellow gown, trimmed with white chiffon. Hair worn in loose curls around the neck. Foliage and landscape background. | ||
The lady painted was (like the Hatchetts) fo a Huguenot family, which disguised itself under the English surname of Collick, but the real name was lost. She was seventeen when Gainsborough painted her. He used to spend many evenings at her father's house, and was won by the young lady's extraordinary musical genius. She was a pupil of Clementi, who pronounced her the first non-professional performer in England. Gainsborough asked to paint her, and declared he would do his best, and sent it home a gift from the painter in the year 1786. | |||
In 1786 she married Charles Hatchett, Esq., of Mount Clare, Roehampton. He was descended from the old French Noblesse, but better known in England as a literary and scientific man. He was treasurer of the Club to which Johnson and Reynolds belonged and lived long enough to be the Father of the ROyal Society, and died in 1847. | |||
Canvas: W. 24 1/2; H. 29 3/8 | |||
Collection: Alfred Rothschild, London. | |||
Charles Wertheimer, London | |||
Archibald Coates, Glasgow. | |||
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Revision as of 07:23, 16 December 2020
17 GAINSBOROUGH, THOMAS, R. A. 1727-1788 MRS. HATCHET — Half-length, full face in oval, dressed in a low neck yellow gown, trimmed with white chiffon. Hair worn in loose curls around the neck. Foliage and landscape background.
The lady painted was (like the Hatchetts) fo a Huguenot family, which disguised itself under the English surname of Collick, but the real name was lost. She was seventeen when Gainsborough painted her. He used to spend many evenings at her father's house, and was won by the young lady's extraordinary musical genius. She was a pupil of Clementi, who pronounced her the first non-professional performer in England. Gainsborough asked to paint her, and declared he would do his best, and sent it home a gift from the painter in the year 1786.
In 1786 she married Charles Hatchett, Esq., of Mount Clare, Roehampton. He was descended from the old French Noblesse, but better known in England as a literary and scientific man. He was treasurer of the Club to which Johnson and Reynolds belonged and lived long enough to be the Father of the ROyal Society, and died in 1847.
Canvas: W. 24 1/2; H. 29 3/8 Collection: Alfred Rothschild, London. Charles Wertheimer, London Archibald Coates, Glasgow.
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