Sir Nathaniel Dance, R.A. (1735-1811)

Portrait of Charlotte, Countess of Abingdon (d.1794), full-length, in coronation robes, holding a coronet in her right hand, on a terrace, with a wooded landscape beyond

细节

Sir Nathaniel Dance, R.A. (1735-1811)
Portrait of Charlotte, Countess of Abingdon (d.1794), full-length, in coronation robes, holding a coronet in her right hand, on a terrace, with a wooded landscape beyond
inscribed 'Dance' (lower left) and with identifiying inscription and date '1769' (lower right)
oil on canvas
85 x 56in. (217.2 x 143.5 cm.)
in possibly the original carved and gilded maratta frame

来源

By descent to Montagu, 7th Earl of Abingdon; Sotheby's, 7 June 1928, lot 81 (bought by Legatt).
Purchased by William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose, and by descent.

展览

Winchester College, An Exhibition of Pictures from Hampshire Houses, 1938, no.18.
London, Kenwood, Nathaniel Dance, 25 June - 4 September 1977, no.25.

拍品专文

The sitter was the daughter of Admiral Sir Peter Warren, at one time M.P. for Westminster. On 7 July 1768 she married Willoughby Bertie, 4th Earl of Abingdon (1740-1799), who had succeeded to the earldom on his father's death in 1760. Described as 'one of the most steady and intrepid assertors of liberty in this age', Lord Abingdon was a close friend of the Marquis of Rockingham. A man of strong political beliefs, he attacked Burke in a popular pamphlet for the policy that led to the American War of Independence, and opposed the war with France. A full-length portrait of him by Gainsborough was sold by Major Hugh Rose in these Rooms, 1 June 1956, lot 47. Lord and Lady Abingdon had three sons and a daughter, the eldest son, Montagu (1780-1854), succeeding his father as 5th Earl.

A three-quarter-length copy of this portrait was sold in these Rooms, 6 April 1973, lot 122.