Daniel Gardner (1750-1805)

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Daniel Gardner (1750-1805)

Portrait of the Lord Viscount Brome, Lady Mary Cornwallis and Miss Caroline Townshend, as children, with a spaniel in a wooded landscape

an extensive inscription on the reverse of the frame reads 'Lord Viscount Brome Son to Earl Cornwallis/Aged five years/Lady Mary Cornwallis Daughter to Earl Cornwallis/Aged Ten years/Miss Caroline Townshend Eldest Daughter to the/R^t. Hon^ble. Charles Townshend of Honingham in Norfolk/Aged one year and Half/Bean a favourite Dog/Painted by Mr. Gardener/March 1780'; pastel, oval, in an English 18^t^h Century carved and gilded frame
29½ x 37½in. (749 x 953mm.)

Provenance

The Viscount Harcourt and thence by descent to the present owner

Literature

G.C. Williamson, Daniel Gardner, London, 1921, p.102, repr. 3rd p. opp. p.100

Lot Essay

Charles Cornwallis (1774-1823) Viscount Brome, later 3rd Earl Cornwallis, Master of the King's Hounds, married in 1797, Lady Louisa daughter of the 4th Duke of Gordon. His children were: Jane (1798-1856), Jemima (1803-1856), Mary (1804-1872) and Louisa and Elizabeth both died unmarried.

Mary Cornwallis, born 1769, sister of 3rd Earl Cornwallis eloped with Mark Singleton (1762-1840) a Barrister, M.P. for Eye, son of Sydenham Singleton of Dublin. They married firstly in November 1785, and secondly with her Father's permission on 9th Jan 1786.

Caroline Townshend (1778-1866) was the daughter of Charles Townshend and Annabella Powlett Smith. She died unmarried at Chiselhurst Common, Kent

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