Enoch Seeman the younger (c.1694 – 1744) – IMS Photography

Isabella Blackett, later Countess of Buchan

Ian Malpass-Scott — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 18:22:39 +0000

Oil painting on canvas, Isabella Blackett, later Countess of Buchan (d.1763) by Enoch Seeman the younger (Gdańsk c.1694 – London 1744), circa 1740. NOT Julia Blackett, Lady Calverley (1686-1736) by Thomas Gainsborough RA (Sudbury 1727 – London 1788). Inscribed (erroneously): later 18th C with name of sitter, bottom left: Iulia, Lady Calverley, Dr: of 1st: Sr: Wim Blackett,/of Wallington,/b.1688./m.1706 Sr: Wr: Calverley./d.1736. A three-quarter-length portrait of a young woman seated, turned slightly to the right, gazing at the spectator, wearing a brown dress with striped bodice in blue, and blue bows; lace at neck and wrists; left hand on plinth.

Provenance: Given with the property to the National Trust in 1941 by Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan, 3rd Bt (1870 – 1958)

Marks and inscriptions: (later inscription with name of sitter)

Text from National Trust website

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Wallington Hall, Northumberland
Material: Oil on canvas
Artist: Enoch Seeman the younger (c.1694 – 1744)
Date: c. 1740

Image Details
Date: 19 October 2025
Camera body: iPhone Xs
Lens: Wide Camera 26mm ƒ/1.8
Focal Length: 26mm
Aperture: ƒ/1.8
Shutter Speed: 1/50s
ISO: 400
Licensing: Image of a National Trust asset. This image cannot be licensed.

Sir William Blackett, 1st Bt

Ian Malpass-Scott — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 18:22:39 +0000

Oil painting on canvas, Sir William Blackett, 1st Bt (c.1667-d.1705), attributed to Enoch Seeman the younger (Gdańsk c.1694 – London 1744), inscribed: in 18th C with name of sitter, bottom right: 1st: Sr: Wm: Blackett/of Wallington/b./Bart: 1684/d.1705. A three-quarter-length portrait of a youngish man, turned slightly to the right, gazing at the spectator, wearing a blue coat and brown cloak, his left arm resting on a plinth.

Provenance: Given with the property to the National Trust in 1941 by Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan, 3rd Bt (1870 – 1958)

Marks and inscriptions: Back of frame (top center): English but illegible W.Cloaks possibly Bottom right front of canvas: later inscription with name of sitter Back of frame top right: Letter X

Text from National Trust website

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Wallington Hall, Northumberland
Material: Oil on canvas
Artist: attributed to Enoch Seeman the younger (c.1694 – 1744)
Date: c. 1705

Image Details
Date: 19 October 2025
Camera body: iPhone Xs
Lens: Telephoto Camera 52mm ƒ/2.4
Focal Length: 52mm
Aperture: ƒ/2.4
Shutter Speed: 1/33s
ISO: 500
Licensing: Image of a National Trust asset. This image cannot be licensed.

Isabella Blackett, Countess of Buchan

Ian Malpass-Scott — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 15:17:00 +0000

Oil painting on canvas, Isabella Blackett, Countess of Buchan (d.1763) by Enoch Seeman the younger (Gdańsk c.1694 – London 1744), inscribed: later 18th century with name of sitter, bottom right: Isabella, dr. of 1st. Sir Wm: Blackett/of Wallington./m.1743, David 4th Earl of Buchan./d.1763, s.p. – circa 1745. A full-length portrait of a young woman standing, facing, wearing peeress’s robes, a coronet in her right hand, a table with her gloves at the right; a chair, left.

Provenance: Given with the property to the National Trust in 1941 by Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan, 3rd Bt (1870-1958)

Marks and inscriptions: (later inscription with name of sitter)

Text from National Trust

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Wallington Hall, Northumberland
Material: Oil on canvas
Artist: Enoch Seeman the younger (c.1694 – 1744)
Date: circa 1745

Image Details
Date: 25 July 2025
Camera body: iPhone Xs
Lens: Wide Camera 26mm ƒ/1.8
Focal Length: 26mm
Aperture: ƒ/1.8
Shutter Speed: 1/15s
ISO: 1000
Licensing: Image of a National Trust asset. This image cannot be licensed.

Rhoda Apreece, Mrs Francis Blake Delaval

Ian Malpass-Scott — Sun, 21 May 2023 19:00:14 +0000

Daughter of Robert Apreece and Sarah Hussey, she married Captain Francis Blake Delaval (1692 – 1752) at St. Anne’s church, Westminster, in August 1724. The Husseys lived at Doddington, to which she was heir, a hall built by Thomas Tailor, Registrar to the Bishop of Lincoln in 1600 and designed by Robert Smythson. The Hall passed to the Hussey family by marriage, when the Tailor line died out. The Husseys were penalised by Cromwell for their Royalist support, and were considerably impoverished, such that the house was neglected until 1760, when Sir John Delaval restored it. Rhoda inherited the house from Sir Thomas Hussey of Doddington, her maternal grandfather, in 1749. She and Sir Francis did not move into Delaval Hall, which had not yet been completed by Sir George, until 1728. Accommodating their twelve children (eight sons and four daughters) into a house designed for a bachelor Admiral, was difficult, and some of them were sent to stay with relatives in other Delaval houses at Dissington and Ford. The unruly brood became unknown as the ‘Gay Delavals’, renowned for their exuberant lifestyle and theatrical productions. Her costume is an idiosyncratic version – combined with lacing – of that in Rubens’s portrait of Helene Fourment (Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon; then in Sir Robert Walpole’s collection), which inspired dozens of imitations in the mid-C18th, after it was first adopted by John Vanderbank around 1730. It is particularly common in the works of painters, such as Hudson, who employed Van Aken as a drapery painter – but in none of their paintings does the costume resemble this. Anthony Mould prefers an attribution to Hudson (he also noted that the right-hand side was flattened with some losses). Alastair Laing felt the hand was crisper than Hudson, and too stylised for Pond, before realizing that the treatment of the eyes, in particular, betray Seeman’s hand. (Amanda Bradley)

Provenance: accepted in lieu of tax by H.M.Treasury and transferred to the National Trust in 2009

Marks & Inscriptions: Bottom centre: Incription bottom centre: “Rhoda Apreece, wife of Francis blake Delaval esq”

Text from National Trust website

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Seaton Delaval Hall, Northumberland
Material: Oil on canvas
Artist: attributed to Enoch Seeman the younger (c.1694 – 1744), Arthur Pond (1701 – 1758), Thomas Hudson (1701 – 1779)
Date: circa 1730

Image Details
Date: 21 May 2023
Camera body: iPhone Xs
Lens: Wide Camera 26mm ƒ/1.8
Focal Length: 26mm
Aperture: ƒ/1.8
Shutter Speed: 1/25s
ISO: 640
Licensing: Image of a National Trust asset. This image cannot be licensed.