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Charles Jervas 1675-1739
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8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description
- Charles Jervas
- Portrait of Frances Digby, Viscountess Scudamore (1685-1729)
- Oil on canvas
Three quarter length, standing in a river landscape, wearing a blue dress
Provenance
By descent in the Digby family to Mrs. J.D.H. Bankes
Catalogue Note
The sitter was the only daughter and heir of Simon Digby, 4th Baron Digby of Geashill, King's County, Ireland, and his wife Lady Frances Noel, daughter of Edward Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough. She married in circa 1705, James, 3rd Viscount Scudamore of Sligo, and Baron Dromore, who was born at Shannon Park in Ireland. Her husband was MP for Hereford from 1705 until his death in 1716. Their only child, Frances, married firstly Henry Somerset, 3rd Duke of Beaufort, and following a divorce, secondly Charles Fitzroy, illegitimate son of the 1st Duke of Grafton.
Charles Jervas was born in Clonliske in Kings County, Ireland. He moved to London in the mid 1690's but continued to visit Ireland frequently, living there in 1697-98, 1715-1716, 1717-1721 and 1729-1734. Pope is recorded as continually entreating him to return to England - "Come then, and having peopled Ireland with a World of beautiful shadows, come to us..." (George Sherborn, Correspondence of Alexander Pope, 1956, Vol I, p. 347)
Charles Jervas was born in Clonliske in Kings County, Ireland. He moved to London in the mid 1690's but continued to visit Ireland frequently, living there in 1697-98, 1715-1716, 1717-1721 and 1729-1734. Pope is recorded as continually entreating him to return to England - "Come then, and having peopled Ireland with a World of beautiful shadows, come to us..." (George Sherborn, Correspondence of Alexander Pope, 1956, Vol I, p. 347)