Lot 199: Attributed to George Knapton , London 1698 - 1778 Portrait of Elizabeth Hatch, full length, wearing a blue dress and holding a peach in her right hand oil on canvas

oil on canvas

measurements note 125 by 100 cm., 49¼ by 39½ in.

Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, 59th Exhibition, 1933 (lent by Sir Gomer Berry)

Sir James Gomer Berry, later Viscount Kemsley, Chandos House, Queen Anne Street, London

Elizabeth Hatch was the daughter of James Hatch (d. 1755), a brandy merchant of Ludgate Street, London and his wife Jane who were married at St. Bride's Church on 15th January 1718. Elizabeth was baptized on the 12th January 1724, also at St. Bride's Church, Fleet Street.

This portrait was owned by Sir James Gomer Berry (1883-1968) who started the Daily Telegraph. He was created a Baronet in 1928, and raised to the peerage as Viscount Kemsley in 1945.