John Vanderbank English, 1694-1739
Portrait of Martin Folkes DCL, PRS, PSA (1690-1754), c1739
Oil on canvas
127 x 101.6 cm
50 x 40 in
50 x 40 in
Signed and indistinctly dated 173(9 ?) on the base of the column, and inscribed (in a later 18th century hand): MARTIN FOLKES ESQ., P.R. & A.S.. OBIIT 1754 AE 63
Provenance
by descent from the sitter with the family of the ffolkes Baronets at Hillington Hall in Norfolk, (who in recent years lent it to Sir Roy Harrod) until acquired by us
Literature
cf. Portraits in Norfolk Houses (Duleep Singh, Vol. I, page 245 et seq., sub Hillington Hall)
Early Georgian Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery (John Kerslake: HMSO, 1977, page 77, and 77n, sub “Iconography” of Martin Folkes)