Anne Hatton, Countess of Winchilsea

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Inscribed, lower right: Anne,/Con. of Winchilsea/& Nottingham/1727.

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Acquired with NPG 3622 (see Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham) for the reference collection, it remained on deposit until 1971.
Her husband married 1) Lady Essex Rich (1651/2-84) by whom he had two surviving children, and 2) Anne Hatton, by whom he had twenty-two, at least thirteen reaching maturity.

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Piper 1963
D. Piper, Catalogue of the Seventeenth Century Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery 1625-1714, 1963, p 384.

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Passed with the sitter’s estate of Burley-on-the-Hill to the Hanburys of Drumstinchell; Hanbury sale, Christie’s, 20 June 1947, lot 51 as by Kneller, bought Leggatt for the NPG.


This extended catalogue entry is from the National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Later Stuart Portraits 1685-1714, National Portrait Gallery, 2009, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.

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