GEORGE ROMNEY* (1734-1802)

Details

GEORGE ROMNEY* (1734-1802)

Portrait of Catherine, Chichester, seated three-quarter length, wearing a white dress with a blue ribbon and sash, in a landscape

oil on canvas
30 x 25in. (76.2 x 63.5cm.)

Provenance

John Chichester, Arlington and Calverleigh (father of the sitter)
Sir Thomas Hugh Clifford (later Constable), Bt., Tixall, Staffs, and Burton Constable, Yorks (brother-in-law of the sitter)
Lt.-Col. Raleigh Chichester-Constable, D.L., Burton Constable, Yorks; his sale, Christie's, London, July 8, 1927, lot 46 (#4,200 to Knoedler) Ryan; sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Jan. 19-20, 1940, lot 208 (#9,200)

Literature

H. Ward and W. Roberts, Romney, 1904, II, p. 28, as painted in 1789

Lot Essay

The sitter was born in 1765, the daughter of John Chichester of Arlington and Calverleigh, Devonshire and his second wife, Mary, daughter of Major Donald McDonald. At an early age, probably soon after the present portrait was painted in 1789, she became a nun at Liège where she died in 1791