Henry Vernon (1686-1719)

British (English) School. Oil painting on canvas, Henry Vernon (1686-1719) by Jonathan Richardson the elder (London 1665 – London 1745), circa 1710/15, inscribed bottom centre: "Henry Vernon, esqe father to the first Lord Vernon." A full-length portrait of a man, turned to the left gazing at the spectator in a grey powdered wig, wearing a brown velvet coat with white embroidered waistcoat, his hat in his right hand, his left hand tucked into his waistcoat, standing on a chequered floor before a pillar to the right, with a view of a formal garden and a park to the left. Henry first married Anne Pigot (Piggott), through whom the Vernon family inherited the Kinderton estates from her uncle Peter Venables and assumed the additional name of Venables, and secondly to Matilda Wright. By his first wife he was the father of George the 1st Lord Vernon. Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire