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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 7, 2022 | Bonhams | London | Old Master Paintings | 39 | $****** - ****** | Portrait of Sir Thomas Hatton, 8th Bt. of Longstanton, Cambridgeshire and Lady Hatton, before a green curtain, a landscape beyond |
paintings
131.7 x 142.2 cm (51.85 x 55.98 in)
oil on canvas
Probably by descent to the sitters' granddaughter, Anne Hatton, who was a relative of the Hon. Edward Finch-Hatton (circa 1667-1771), thence by descent to his great-grandson
William Robert Finch Hatton (1827-1909), Great Weldon, Northamptonshire, thence by descent to his eldest daughter
Lady George William Gunning (1869-1958), thence by descent to her daughter
Mrs Essex Brooke (died 1996), by whom given in 1959 to
R.C.B Gardner and thence by descent to the present owner
Sir Thomas Hatton was a landowner and 8th baronet of Longstanton in Cambridgeshire (1728-1787). The baronetcy was created by Charles I in 1641 for his eponymous ancestor, Sir Thomas Hatton, a politician who sat in the House of Commons. Henrietta, or Harriet Hatton (1735-1795) was the daughter of Dingley Askham of Conington Hall, Cambridgeshire. Their children were Sir John and Sir Thomas Dingley Hatton, who were respectively the 9th and 10th baronets, and six daughters, including Harriet, who married the Rev. Philip Thomas Gardner of Brynadda, Merionethshire, from whom the owner of the present portrait is descended. The baronetcy became extinct on the death of Sir Thomas Dingley in 1812. The estate of Longstanton had been acquired by Sir Christopher Stratton in 1617, who is recorded to have occupied a manor house in 1627, called 'Staunton alias Covells', which lay on the high street north of All Saints' church: said to have been built in 1560, it was recorded with 16 or 19 hearths between 1664 and 1674; part was pulled down circa 1792 but the rest was occupied by the sitters' son, Sir Thomas Dingley until his death in 1812. The remainder of the house was demolished circa 1851, but the site evidently passed to the vendor's ancestor, Harriet, wife of the Rev. Philip Gardner, and remained in the family of Gardner of Conington Hall until circa 1919.
William Robert Finch Hatton, who owned the present painting was the great grandson of the Hon. Edward Finch Hatton, who inherited the Longstanton estate from his relative, Anne Hatton, who was the sitter's granddaughter. It would seem most likely that he inherited this portrait by the same means.
Thomas Hudson (Devon 1701-1779 Twickenham), and Studio
Portrait of Sir Thomas Hatton, 8th Bt. of Longstanton, Cambridgeshire and Lady Hatton, before a green curtain, a landscape beyond
oil on canvas
131.7 x 142.2cm (51 7/8 x 56in).
