Portrait of Lady Frances Hamilton (1795-1860), small half-length

Details

Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A. (Bristol 1769-1830 London)
Portrait of Lady Frances Hamilton (1795-1860), small half-length
signed with initials and dated 'T.L. delt./ 1804' (lower left)
black and red chalk
21 ½ x 12 5/8 in. (55.6 x 32.1 cm)

Provenance

The sitter, and by descent to her daughter
Anne, Lady Midford, by whom bequeathed to
Sir William Baillie Hamilton, and by descent to
Major W.S. Baillie Hamilton; Sotheby's, London, 18 November 1953, lot 121.
with Spink, London 1957, where purchased by the father of the present owner.

Literature

K. Garlick, 'A Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings and Pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence', Walpole Society, no. 39, 1964, p. 229.

Exhibited

London, National Portrait Gallery, Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1979, no. 70.

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Lot Essay

Lady Cecil Frances Hamilton was the fourth daughter of John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn, and the only child of his second marriage to his cousin Cecil Hamilton. She married William Howard, Lord Clonmore, later 4th Earl of Wicklow, in 1816. He was elected as an Irish representative peer in 1821 and sat in the House of Lords as a Tory. From 1831 he served as Lord Lieutenant of Co. Wicklow. Little is known about his wife, and it seems that she was the only member of her family drawn by Lawrence.

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