Study of The Lady Evelyn Stanhope, full-length, in a white dress with a blue sash

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Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, R.A. (1802-1873)
Study of The Lady Evelyn Stanhope, full-length, in a white dress with a blue sash
with inscription 'The/Lady Evelyn Stanhope/by/Sir Edwin Landseer/Sketched in 2 Hours at Chesterfield House/in 1842' (on the backing)
pencil and coloured chalks, on buff paper
213/8 x 147/8 in. (54.4 x 37.8 cm.)

Provenance

Countess of Chesterfield.

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, Works of Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A., 1874.

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Sale room notice

Please note that the present drawing was number 15 in the Royal Academy Exhibition, Works of Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A., 1874 and is listed in A. Graves Catalogue of the Works of the Late Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A., London, 1876, under 1843.

Lot Essay

Lady Evelyn Stanhope (d. 1875) was the daughter of George, 6th Earl of Chesterfield. In 1861 she married Henry, 4th Earl of Carnarvon. Her daughter, Victoria Alexandrina Mary Cecil (b. 1874), was the namesake and god-daughter of Queen Victoria.

Landseer painted a portrait of Queen Victoria with the Princess Royal and the Prince of Wales, in 1842, the same year as the present drawing, for which there are preparatory chalk drawings in the Royal Collection, similar in style and handling to the present drawing (see O. Milller, The Victorian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, Cambridge, 1992, pp. 142-3, no. 399, figs. 51-2). Landseer was a personal friend of the Chesterfields and this drawing was executed during an informal visit and does not appear to relate to any known oil portrait.

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