The Honourable Miss Fox
With her fashionable outfit and direct gaze, set against a stylised background, the sitter captures our attention. The woman is a member of the Fox-Strangways family who were Earls of Ilchester, but her precise identity is unknown.
Northcote, born in Plymouth, was originally trained as a watchmaker by his father, but went on to become a portrait painter and an assistant to Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Northcote, born in Plymouth, was originally trained as a watchmaker by his father, but went on to become a portrait painter and an assistant to Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 274/1982
- Category
- Fine Art
- Collection Class
- Paintings
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Common Name
- The Honourable Miss Fox
- Simple Name
- painting
- Inscription Transcription
- J S Northcote 1810 pinxt Hon,ble Miss Fox; Honble Miss Fox painted by Northcote
- Period Classification
- George III (1760-1811)
- Production Town
- Plymouth
- Production County
- Devon
- Production Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Production Date
- 1810
- Production Person Initials
- James
- Production Person Surname
- Northcote
- Production Year Low
- Production Year High
