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Description Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt.
Lübeck 1646 - 1723 London
Portrait of Catherine Knatchbull, Lady Rooke (c.1680-1755), three-quarter length, wearing a blue dress
later inscribed lower left: Catherine Knatchbull / Wife of Sr George Rooke Kt.
oil on canvas, in a carved and pierced giltwood frame
126.3 x 102.7 cm.
Condition Report The canvas has a firm relining, and the paint surface is relatively clean with a slightly discoloured varnish. The network of craquelure has become more distinct in the flesh tones. There are a few small spots of discoloured retouching scattered in the background. It is almost impossible to discern intervention underneath ultraviolet light due to the thick and opaque varnish - there may be a spot of retouching in her chest as well as just right of her proper right wrist, and some lines of strengthening in the foliage upper left. The painting appears in overall good condition.
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Literature Inventory,
1749, in the dining room;
Catalogue of Portraits,?1920, no. 34;
H. Avray Tipping, 'Mersham le Hatch',?
Country Life, 8 August 1925,?in the hall,?p. 219;
H. Avray Tipping,
English Homes, Late Georgian, 1760-1820, London 1926, in situ, p. 1124.
Notes The sitter was the daughter of Sir Thomas Knatchbull, 3rd Bt. and his wife Mary, daughter of Sir Edward Dering. On 16th January 1706 she married Admiral Sir George Rooke, as his third wife. Celebrated as commander of the allied forces at the capture of Gibraltar in 1704, and for the victory over the Spanish at Vigo Bay, Rooke had retired as Admiral of the Fleet in 1705, shortly before their marriage, and never went to sea again. They lived at Lawrence House in Canterbury. Following her husband's death in 1709, Catherine married Rev. the Hon. Henry Moore, Rector of Malpas, son of Henry, 3rd Earl of Drogheda. By her second marriage she had two children: a son, John, who became an Admiral and was made a baronet in 1766, and a daughter, Mary. Catherine died in 1755.