Portrait of Lady Charlotte Hill, Countess Talbot, bust-length, in a white dress with gold trim, in a landscape

Details

Daniel Gardner (1750-1805)
Portrait of Lady Charlotte Hill, Countess Talbot, bust-length, in a white dress with gold trim, in a landscape
pencil and pastel heightened with bodycolour, oval, the sheet extended
9¾ x 7¾ in. (25 x 20 cm.)

Provenance

Sir Robert Gresley, Bt.
Anon. sale; Christie's, London, 8 July 1910, lot 23, with a portrait of Lord Talbot (62 gns to Wertheimer).
M. Rothschild, 1921.
with the Edward Gallery.
James Thursby-Pelham and by descent.

Literature

Connoisseur, February 1915, vol. XLI, no. 162, illustrated in colour.
Rachette et Cie, Pastels Anglais, p. 77, illustrated in colour.
R.R.M. Sée, English Pastels 1750-1830, London, 1911, pp. 62, 75-76, illustrated.
G.C. Williamson, Daniel Gardner, London, 1921, p. 121, illustrated.

Exhibited

Paris, Exposition des Pastellistes Anglais du xviiie Siècle, 1911, no. 57.
London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of British Arts c.1800-1860, 1934, no. 664.

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Lot Essay

Lady Charlotte Hill born on 19 March 1754 was the 3rd daughter of William, 1st Marquess of Downshire. On 7 May 1776 she married John Chetwynd-Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot (1749-1793). Countess Talbot was painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds (London, Tate Gallery) and Thomas Gainsborough and John Hoppner (New Zealand, Dunedin Public Art Gallery). There is another pastel of the sitter by Daniel Gardner, in the collection of C.J. Conway, Turville Court.

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