Attributed to Nathaniel Hone, R.A. (Dublin 1718-1784 London)

Portrait of a lady, thought to be Lady Elizabeth Levesson Gower, Countess Waldegrave (1724-1784), half-length, in a pale blue dress and pearl choker

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Attributed to Nathaniel Hone, R.A. (Dublin 1718-1784 London)
Portrait of a lady, thought to be Lady Elizabeth Levesson Gower, Countess Waldegrave (1724-1784), half-length, in a pale blue dress and pearl choker
dated '1760' (lower right)
oil on canvas
27¼ x 21½ in. (69.3 x 54.6 cm.)

Provenance

J. Tillotson, Pertenhall, Hertfordshire.
Acquired from Henry Markham, Olney, Bedfordshire.

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Lot Essay

The supposed sitter was the daughter of John, 1st Earl Gower and his wife Lady Evelyn Pierrepont, daughter of the 1st Duke of Kingston. She married John, 3rd Earl of Waldegrave in 1751. Her sisters-in-law were famously painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds as The Ladies Waldegrave (Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland).

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