23rd Apr, 2024 10:00
A Political Inheritance - The Contents of a Cotswold Country House
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George Romney (1734-1802)
George Romney (1734-1802)
Portrait of Julia Annabelle, Lady Shuckburgh (1756-1797), wife of Sir George Shuckburgh
half-length, in a white dress and hat
oil on canvas
74cm x 60cm
Provenance:with Charles Cecil Cope Jenkinson, 3rd Earl of Liverpool (1784-1851); with The Hon. Henry Berkeley Portman (1860-1923), later 3rd Viscount Portman; with Emma, Viscountess Portman (1862-1929) by 1926; by descent to her daughter Lady Moyra Dawson-Damer (1897-1962); thence by family descent.
Footnote:Painted in 1788. Mentioned in Lord Hawkesbury's Catalogues of Portraits at Compton Place and at Buxted Park, in Sussex, 1903, p.20, no. 9, at Buxted Park, as in the 'Dining Room'.
Further bibliography:
Kidson (Alex) George Romney, A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015, II, p. 530, no. 1186 (illus).
Sold for £18,000
George Romney (1734-1802)
Portrait of Julia Annabelle, Lady Shuckburgh (1756-1797), wife of Sir George Shuckburgh
half-length, in a white dress and hat
oil on canvas
74cm x 60cm
with Charles Cecil Cope Jenkinson, 3rd Earl of Liverpool (1784-1851); with The Hon. Henry Berkeley Portman (1860-1923), later 3rd Viscount Portman; with Emma, Viscountess Portman (1862-1929) by 1926; by descent to her daughter Lady Moyra Dawson-Damer (1897-1962); thence by family descent.
Painted in 1788. Mentioned in Lord Hawkesbury's Catalogues of Portraits at Compton Place and at Buxted Park, in Sussex, 1903, p.20, no. 9, at Buxted Park, as in the 'Dining Room'.
Further bibliography:
Kidson (Alex) George Romney, A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015, II, p. 530, no. 1186 (illus).
The canvas has been restored and relined. The picture surface is stable and appears to have been cleaned fairly recently. There is some craquelure. Some evidence of in-painting appears under UV, especially to the left of the sitter's chin.
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