Nicholas Farrer (Sunderland 1750-1805)

Portrait of Lady Mary Forbes (1722-1782), three-quarter-length, in a blue dress with lace trim, in a landscape

Details

Nicholas Farrer (Sunderland 1750-1805)
Portrait of Lady Mary Forbes (1722-1782), three-quarter-length, in a blue dress with lace trim, in a landscape
oil on canvas
50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.5 cm.)
inscribed with a biography of the sitter

Provenance

Lady Emily Wellesley-Pole, wife of Lord FitzRoy Somerset (d. 1881; mentioned in her will dated 29 February 1868), and by descent.

Literature

J. Steegman, Portraits in Welsh Houses, Cardiff, 1962, vol. II, p. 126, no. 2.

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Lot Essay

This picture relates to a bust-length portrait of Lady Mary Forbes that was sold at Sotheby's, London, 16 February 1971, lot 37. The latter bears the same eulogising biography as the present lot, extolling Lady Forbes's 'Heavenly Charity' and 'true Piety'. She was married to Admiral the Hon. John Forbes (see lot 28), and was maternal grandmother to Lady FitzRoy Somerset, later Lady Raglan.

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