Hester Lynch Salusbury

1741 - 1821  (80 years)

• Photos » Slide Show		Hester Lynch Thrale in 1771 by John Singleton Copley Portrait of a Lady, 1771 Oil on canvas 126.8 × 100.3 cm
  		Hester Lynch Thrale and her first child, Hester Maria Thrale by Sir Joshua Reynolds
  		Hester and Queeney Thrale in 1777/8 by Sir Joshua Reynolds Hester Lynch Thrale and daughter Hester Maria Thrale. Painted in 1777 or 1778 by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Hester Thrale wrote to her friend Fanny Burney about the portrait [Yung 1984, p.113], complaining that "there is really no resemblance, and the character is less like my father's daughter than Pharaoh's." In the event, Mrs Thrale's portrait was not hung with the other portraits in the library, on the pretext that her husband did not like it. [Leslie and Taylor 1865, vol.2, p.313]. Hester Lynch Thrale wrote verses about this portrait. The portrait sold by Hester on 10 May 18163, bought by Samuel Boddington, merchant for £81 and 18 shillings, his sale Christie's 9 June 18664, bought by Louisa, Lady Ashburton; Mrs Hamilton McKown Twombly; her sale New York 1942; M. Knoedler and Company; bought by Lord Beaverbrook 1955, for Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Canada.
  		Hester Lynch Thrale by John Singleton Copley in 1778 Three quarter length seated portrait of a lady, traditionally identified as Mrs. Thrale, dressed in blue with a lace bonnet, crizzling silver tread. Painted in 1778. Oil painting on canvas 50 x 40 inches in its original gilt wood frame. **Provenance**: By descent in the Packe-Drury-Lowe family since at least the middle of the 19th century until acquired by Lane Fine Art. This exceptionally well-painted portrait is by the greatest American painter of the 18th century, John Singleton Copley. A Bostonian by birth, he has left us with a splendid record of revolutionary America in the years leading up to 1776. A traditionalist by nature, he found his clientele slipping away from him in New York and Boston, and decided to journey first to Italy to widen his education and thence to London, where he rapidly rose to the very first rank of London portraitists, the rival of Gainsborough, Reynolds and Lawrence. The present painting must be among his very earliest productions in England, and uses a pose which he used in both continents. The lady is "crizzling", and typifies the virtues or Labour and Economy, for the job embodied the tedious but valuable task of recovering and recycling the gold and silver thread which was used so widely in fashionable clothing at this date. The traditional identification of the sitter as "Mrs Thrale", seems improbable compared with other portraits of that sitter.
  		Hester Lynch Thrale. by Robert Edge Pine. Bust-length, in black mourning dress and hat by Robert Edge Pine. Oil on canvas, oval 27 x 23 inches. The present portrait, thought to date to 1781, shows her presumably shortly after the death of her first husband Henry Thrale (1728-1781), in widows weeds, at the age of forty. Sale: Sold on 2 December 2008 at Christies for £103,250.1 Provenance: Miss Georgina Perkins, by whom presented to Barclay Perkins & Co. Ltd. in 1943. Exhibited: Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, Welsh National Portraits Exhibition, no. 29, 1957.
  		Hester Lynch Piozzi by unknown Italian artist 1785-1786 Unknown Italian artist oil on canvas, 1785-1786. National Portrait Gallery.
  		Hester Lynch Thrale by George Dance pencil, 1793 9 3/4 in. x 7 1/2 in. (248 mm x 191 mm) Purchased, 1898 by National Portrait Gallery
  		By William Daniell, after George Dance Soft-ground etching, (1793).
  		Hester Lynch Thrale by John Jackson 1810 An engraving of the portrait is shown here Source: http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/exhibits/johnson/circle/7_5.cfm
  		Hester Lynch Thrale in 1818 by Roche Hester Lynch Thrale at Bath aged 77 in 1818. From the original which in 1910 was in possession of Mr. O Butler Fellowes, a descendant of Sir James Fellowes, Mrs Piozzi's friend and executor.
  		Hester Lynch Piozzi at her 80th birthday Fete. Engraved by J. Thomson after J. Hopwood.
  		Hester Lynch Thrale. Engraving by Samuel Freeman from 1777/8 portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
  		Hester Lynch Thrale Hester Lynch Thrale in a yellow dress at a writing table by Johann Zoffany (1733 - 1810). Oil on canvas. 35 x 28 inches (91 x 71 cm). Provenance: Mrs Richard J Wilson (remnants of label on verso) Mrs Elise Agnus Daingerfield; Baltimore Museum of Art, Daingerfield Collection Detroit Institute of Arts Christie's London, 5 March 1982, lot 64. Exhibited: Detroit Institute of Arts, Jan. 27 - Feb. 29, 1948. Literature: "English Conversation Pieces of the Eighteenth Century", Exhibition catalogue, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1948. Sold: The Paula Peyraud Collection, Bloomsbury Auctions 6 May 2009. for USD$48,000.
  		Hester Lynch Thrale Engraved by Henry Meyer, published by T. Cadell & W. Davies 21 December 1811, after John Jackson portrait which is shown here. On 27 September 2009 - 11:26pm Peter Otton (potton@sky.com) advised... I note with interest that you list an engraving attributed to Henry [Hoppner] Meyer. I am writing to tell you that the National Portrait Gallery in London and the Smithsonian Institute in Washington have both now accepted my research and agree that Henry Meyer was never known as Henry Hoppner Meyer in his lifetime, that it was Bernard Francis Hoppner Meyer [Hoppner Meyer], Henry's second eldest son, who emigrated to American and that it was he that painted and also made a drawing of President Andrew Jackson. Both Institutes are to amend all their records accordingly. In simple terms experts for many years have confused both artists – father and son. I hope you find this interesting and would consider amending your reference to this artist and in future will refer to him as Henry Meyer not Henry Hoppner Meyer. Peter Otton
  		Hester Lynch Thrale. by Marino or Mariano Bovi (Bova). Published by John Stockdale, after Pierre Noel Violet, published 1800.
  		Hester Lynch Thrale by Richard Cosway
  		Hester Lynch Thrale by James Sharples Portrait of Hester Lynch Piozzi (née Salusbury, later Mrs Thrale) 1741 - 1821 Pastel on paper 32 x 27 cm. (12.3/4 x 10.3/4 in.) Price: £1,800 on Wednesday 18 November 2015
  		Hester Lynch Piozzi (née Salusbury, later Mrs Thrale) by Charles William Sherborn, after Robert Edge Pine Sketched in 1887 from Robert Edge Pine's 1781 portrait.
  		Hester Lynch Piozzi (née Salusbury, later Mrs Thrale) by William Daniell, after George Dance soft-ground etching, (1793)

  
  

  Documents » Slide Show		'Frontispiece for the 2nd edition of Dr Johnson's letters' by James Sayers, published by Thomas Cornell. Etching, published 7 April 1788. 9 3/4 in. x 6 7/8 in. (249 mm x 175 mm) plate size; 10 5/8 in. x 7 5/8 in. (269 mm x 194 mm).
  		'The biographers' by James Sayers, published by Thomas Cornell etching, published June 1786 10 3/4 in. x 7 5/8 in. (273 mm x 194 mm) plate size; 11 5/8 in. x 8 3/8 in. (295 mm x 214 mm) paper size
  		An entertainment in Vauxhall Gardens by Thomas Rowlandson in 1784 The box in the bottom left of the image depicts a supper box at a concert containing: James Boswell; Hester Thrale; Samuel Johnson; Hester Thrale (she appears twice); and Oliver Goldsmith.

  
  

• Name	Hester Lynch Salusbury
  Born	16 Jan 1741	Bodvel, Caernarvonshire, Wales   [1]
  Christened	10 Feb 1741	Llannor, Caernarvonshire, Wales   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Property	Brynbella, Tremeirchion, Flintshire, Wales
  		Brynbella rear façade 1799
  		Brynbella rear façade 1799
  		Brynbella front façade July 2001
  Property	Bodvel, Caernarvonshire, Wales
  	Cottage
  Property	31 May 1781	Anchor Brewery, Southwark, Surrey, England
  	Sale of brewery inherited from husband
  		Anchor Brewery deed of sale 31 May 1781. Deed of sale of Anchor Brewery on 31 May 1781 by Henry Thrale's executors and purchasers: Hester Lynch Thrale; Samuel Johnson; John Cator; Jeremiah Crutchley; Henry Smith; Robert Barclay; John Perkins.
  Publication	London, England
  	Thraliana - The diary of Mrs Hester Lynch Thrale (later Mrs Piozzi)
  		Thraliana - The diary of Mrs Hester Lynch Thrale (later Mrs Piozzi)
  Publication	26 Mar 1786
  	Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. During the Last Twenty Years of His Life by Hester Thrale, was first published 26 March 1786
  		Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. During the Last Twenty Years of His Life by Hester Thrale, was first published 26 March 1786 More information
  Publication	1801
  	Retrospection or A review of the most striking and important events, characters, situations and their consequences which the last eighteen hundred years have presented to the view of mankind by Hester Lynch Piozzi
  		Retrospection by Hester Lynch Piozzi in 1801
  Died	2 May 1821	Clifton, Gloucestershire, England
  	Address: 20 Sion Hill http://www.thrale.com/hesters_death
  		Plaque commemorating Hester Lynch Thrale's place of death at 20 Sion Hill, Clifton, Bristol
  Buried	16 May 1821	Church of Corpus Christi, Tremeirchion, Flintshire, Wales   [2]
  		NEAR THIS PLACE ARE INTERRED THE REMAINS OF HESTER LYNCH PIOZZI. "DOCTOR JOHSNON'S MRS THRALE" BORN 1741. DIED 1821. WITTY, VIVACIOUS AND CHARMING. IN AN AGE OF GENIUS: SHE EVER HELD A FOREMOST PLACE. THIS TABLET IS ERECTED BY ORLANDO BUTLER FELLOWES, GRAND-SON OF SIR JAMES FELLOWES, THE INTIMATE FRIEND OF MRS PIOZZI AND HER EXECUTOR. ASSISTED BY SUBSCRIPTIONS 28TH APRIL 1909.
  Person ID	I87	UK Thrale family
  Last Modified	20 Jul 2016

  
  

  Father	John Salusbury,   b. 1710, Bach-y-Craig, Denbighshire, Wales ,   d. 18 Dec 1762  (Age 52 years)
  Mother	Hester Maria Cotton,   b. 1707, Tremeirchion, Tremeirchion, Flintshire, Wales ,   d. 18 Jun 1773, Streatham Park, Streatham, Surrey, England  (Age 66 years)
  Married	1738
  Family ID	F53	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Gabriel Mario Piozzi,   b. Bef 8 Jun 1740,   d. 26 Mar 1809, Brynbella, Tremeirchion, Flintshire, Wales  (Age ~ 68 years)
  Children	1. ? Salusbury,   b. 7 Jan 1788,   d. Yes, date unknown + 2. Sir John Salusbury Piozzi Salusbury,   b. 9 Sep 1793,   d. 18 Dec 1858, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England  (Age 65 years)
  Last Modified	13 Feb 2004
  Family ID	F52	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Henry Thrale, M.P.,   b. Between 1724 and 1730, Harrow Corner, Southwark, Surrey, England ,   d. 4 Apr 1781, Grosvenor Square, Middlesex, England  (Age ~ 57 years)
  Married	11 Oct 1763	Saint Anne's Church, Soho, Middlesex, England   [3]
  Children	+ 1. Hester Maria Thrale "Queeney",   b. 17 Sep 1764, Southwark, Surrey, England ,   d. 31 Mar 1857, Piccadilly, Middlesex, England  (Age 92 years)   2. Frances Thrale,   b. 27 Sep 1765, Streatham Park, Streatham, Surrey, England ,   d. 6 Oct 1765, Southwark, Surrey, England  (Age 0 years)   3. Henry Salusbury Thrale "Harry",   b. 15 Feb 1767, Southwark, Surrey, England ,   d. 23 Mar 1776, Southwark, Surrey, England  (Age 9 years)   4. Anna Maria Thrale,   b. 1 Apr 1768, Streatham Park, Streatham, Surrey, England ,   d. 21 Mar 1770, Dean Street, Middlesex, England  (Age 1 years)   5. Lucy Elizabeth Thrale,   b. 22 Jun 1769, Streatham Park, Streatham, Surrey, England ,   d. 22 Nov 1773, Streatham Park, Streatham, Surrey, England  (Age 4 years)   6. Susannah Arabella Thrale "Gilly or Little Crab",   b. 23 May 1770, Southwark, Surrey, England ,   d. 5 Nov 1858, Knockholt, Kent, England  (Age 88 years)   7. Sophia Thrale,   b. 23 Jul 1771, Streatham Park, Streatham, Surrey, England ,   d. 8 Nov 1824, Sandgate, Kent, England  (Age 53 years)   8. Penelope Thrale,   b. 15 Sep 1772, Streatham Park, Streatham, Surrey, England ,   d. 15 Sep 1772, Streatham Park, Streatham, Surrey, England  (Age 0 years)   9. Ralph Thrale,   b. 8 Nov 1773, Streatham Park, Streatham, Surrey, England ,   d. 13 Jul 1775, Brighton, Sussex, England  (Age 1 years)   10. Frances Anna Thrale,   b. 4 May 1775, Streatham Park, Streatham, Surrey, England ,   d. 9 Dec 1775, Streatham Park, Streatham, Surrey, England  (Age 0 years) + 11. Cecilia Margaretta Thrale,   b. 8 Feb 1777, Streatham Park, Streatham, Surrey, England ,   d. 1 May 1857, Brighton, Sussex, England  (Age 80 years)   12. Henrietta Sophia Thrale "Harriet",   b. 21 Jun 1778, Streatham Park, Streatham, Surrey, England ,   d. 25 Apr 1783, Streatham Park, Streatham, Surrey, England  (Age 4 years)
  Last Modified	15 Apr 2010
  Family ID	F46	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 16 Jan 1741 - Bodvel, Caernarvonshire, Wales Christened - 10 Feb 1741 - Llannor, Caernarvonshire, Wales Property - - Brynbella, Tremeirchion, Flintshire, Wales Property - Cottage - - Bodvel, Caernarvonshire, Wales Married - 11 Oct 1763 - Saint Anne's Church, Soho, Middlesex, England Property - Sale of brewery inherited from husband - 31 May 1781 - Anchor Brewery, Southwark, Surrey, England Publication - Thraliana - The diary of Mrs Hester Lynch Thrale (later Mrs Piozzi) - - London, England Died - Address: 20 Sion Hill http://www.thrale.com/hesters_death - 2 May 1821 - Clifton, Gloucestershire, England Buried - 16 May 1821 - Church of Corpus Christi, Tremeirchion, Flintshire, Wales  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  http://www.thrale.com/hester_thrale_1741_1821

  
  

• Sources

  [S48] Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale), James L Clifford, (1987 ISBN 0-231-06389-X), 8 (Reliability: 4). [S48] Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale), James L Clifford, (1987 ISBN 0-231-06389-X), 457 (Reliability: 4). [S16] Gentleman's Magazine, October 1763 (Reliability: 3).