Follower of Sir Anthony Van Dyck 1599 - 1641

full length, standing, wearing a black dress, on a terrace with a dog



 

By family descent until sold after 1758 (see Literature) in one of the sales following the death of Thomas Fermor, 1st Earl of Pomfret;
E.J. Wythes, Copped Hall, Essex, his sale, Christie's, 22nd November 1935, lot 43 (with the portrait of her husband), bt. F. Partridge for £105;
Acquired by the 1st Baron Hesketh

George Vertue, 'Notebooks', Walpole Society, 1936, Vol.IV, p.37 (1732 - 'at Lord Pomfrets at Easton near Towcester' - 'in the gallery s^r. Hatton Farmer [sic] his Lady';
Brian Fairfax, A Description of Easton Neston in Northamptonshire...., 1758, p.63 hanging in The Gallery

The sitter was the daughter of Sir William Cockayne, and his wife Mary, daughter of Richard Morris, Master of the Ironmonger's Company.  Her father was a prominent figure in the City of London and was Lord Mayor in 1619-1620.  She was one of seven daughters, each of whom made an advantageous marriage - it was said that "his spreading bows and fair branches have given both shade and shelter to some of the goodliest families of England."  Anne did not disappoint her father and married Sir Hatton Fermor, who had been knighted by James I when he visited Easton Neston on his way south to London.  This fine portrait, together with that of her husband, formed part of the collection of E.J. Wythes, which also included portraits of the Duke of Leeds and of his daughter Lady Lempster.  The portrait is recorded at Easton Neston in the middle of the eighteenth century (see Literature) but does not appear in Bridges or Baker.