LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

50.16 in. (127.40 cm.) (height) by 40.35 in. (102.50 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

London, South Kensington Museum,. Second Special Exhibition of National Portraits , 1 May - 31 August 1867, no. 250 (as depicting Lady Mary Wortley Montagu);. Nottingham, Museum and Art Gallery, . Pictures from the Clumber Collection , 1929, no. 37;. Nottingham, Museum and Art Gallery, 1933, on loan;. London, Royal Academy, . Exhibition of British Art c. 1000 - 1860 , 6 January - 17 March 1934, no. 254

Literature:

Catalogue of pictures being part of the Clumber collection: the property of His Grace the Duke of Newcastle , 1872, p. 21, cat. no. 130 (listed in the Smoking Room, as depicting Lady Mary Wortley Montagu);. W.J. Hipkin, . Descriptive catalogue of the pictures.. belonging to His Grace the Duke of Newcastle at Clumber House , London 1923, p. 40, cat. no. 97;. J. Kerslake, . Early Georgian Portraits , London 1977, vol. I, p. 191

Provenance:

Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle (1785-1851), or Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle (1811-1864), Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire;. Henry Pelham-Clinton, 6th Duke of Newcastle (1834-1879), Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire;. Thence by descent to Henry Francis Hope Pelham-Clinton-Hope, Earl of Lincoln, later 8th Duke of Newcastle (1866-1941), Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire;. His sale, London, Christie's, 31 March 1939, lot 48, for £15-15s. to Agnew;. With Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, by whom sold on 22 July 1947 for £60, and back with them again on 1 June 1951, when sold for £75;. Peter Tennant, Esq.;. By whom sold, Glasgow, Christie's, 19-20 November 1986, lot 488;. Bought by the present owners in Long Melford, England, in the 1990s