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Portrait of Selina Shirley (1707-1791), Countess of Huntingdon, small full-length, in a bonnet and blue coat, her left hand resting on a table, a landscape beyond
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Circle of Charles Philips (1708-1747)
Portrait of Selina Shirley (1707-1791), Countess of Huntingdon, small full-length, in a bonnet and blue coat, her left hand resting on a table, a landscape beyond
inscribed 'SELINA COUNTESS OF HUNTINGDON' (lower left)
oil on canvas
17¾ x 12 in. (45.1 x 30.5 cm.)
Portrait of Selina Shirley (1707-1791), Countess of Huntingdon, small full-length, in a bonnet and blue coat, her left hand resting on a table, a landscape beyond
inscribed 'SELINA COUNTESS OF HUNTINGDON' (lower left)
oil on canvas
17¾ x 12 in. (45.1 x 30.5 cm.)
Provenance
The sitter was the daughter of the 2nd Earl Ferrers, she married Theophilus , 9th Earl of Huntingdon and her daughter Elizabeth married Sir John Rawdon, 1st Earl Moira. She devoted herself to Methodism and is credited with building sixty four chapels and founding a Calvinistic branch of the religion known as 'the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion'.
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