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Blake Museum
Bridgwater
Title
Mary Alford, née Standfast (c.1711–1763)
Date
1735
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 88 x W 73 cm
Accession number
BWRAB : 1977/42/1
Acquisition method
gift from Peter Alford, 1977
Work type
Painting
Inscription description
This portrait of Mary, wife of the Rev'd Thomas Alford, J. P. Vicar of Westonzoyland, Etc. daughter of Richard Standfast, Esq: of Cheddon Fitzpaine, Co. Somerset, was painted at the time of her marriage in 1735 by Joseph Highmore. Her son Samuel Alford became Vicar of Curry Rivel & Dean of St. Burian, & inheriting Heale House, lived there & died there in 1799. He left this portrait of her grandmother (& also that of Thomas Alford) to his daughter Anne, who had married Wm. Bgrt Morgan, a Banker;
Blake Museum
Blake Street, Bridgwater, Somerset TA6 3NB England
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