PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF LORD AND LADY WHITE OF HULL SOLD BY THE WHITE TRUST AND LADY WHITE OF HULL

George Romney (1734-1802)

Portrait of Mrs. Henry Maxwell, full-length, in a pale pink dress with a blue sash and a yellow wrap, resting her left arm on a pedestal, in a wooded landscape

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George Romney (1734-1802)
Portrait of Mrs. Henry Maxwell, full-length, in a pale pink dress with a blue sash and a yellow wrap, resting her left arm on a pedestal, in a wooded landscape
with inscription 'This Painting, a portrait of Mrs Maxwell/was bought by Mr Branfill at Lee/Priory Sale on Tuesday 26th August/1834- for Mrs Harrison, Barham./...' (on an old label attached to the stretcher)
oil on canvas
94 x 58¼ in. (238.8 x 148 cm.)

Provenance

By descent in the Brydges family until
The Lee Priory sale, 26 August 1834 (to Mr. Branfill on behalf of Mrs. Harrison Barham).
Champion Russell, 1884.
Charles John Wertheimer.
Sir George Cooper, 1st. Bt. (1856-1940), and by descent until
The Trustees of the Hursley Settlement; Christie's, 16 July 1982, lot 77.

Literature

Sir H. Maxwell, George Romney, London, 1902, p. 184, no. 257.
H. Ward and W. Roberts, Romney, London, 1904, I, p. 102, II, pp. 92, 96, illustrated opposite p.94.
A.B. Chamberlain, George Romney, London, 1910, pp. 119, 326-7.
A Catalogue of the Pictures by Old Masters of the English School and Works of Art forming the Collection of Sir George A. Cooper, Bt., 1912, p. 31.

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, 1884, no. 197.
Berlin, Royal Academy of Arts, 1908, no. 95.
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, on loan 1941-5.
Osterley Park, on loan, until 1982.

Lot Essay

The sitter (1755-1789) was the second surviving daughter of Edward Brydges of Wootton Court, Kent, and married Henry Maxwell of Eushot House, Crondall, Hertfordshire, in 1780. She died in Harley Street from injuries received in a fire.

Sittings are recorded on 27 May, 1, 6, 10 June 1780 and 11 June 1781.

The present picture was one of a number of important British portraits sold in these Rooms by The Trustees of The Hursley Settlement in 1982; others included Lawrence's Portrait of Julia Beatrice Peel and Reynolds' Portrait of Jane, Countess of Eglington. Sir George Cooper bought Hursley Park in 1902 and had it completely remodelled by the Aberdeen architect A. Marshall Mackenzie. Many of the contents were bought under the guidance of Sir Joseph (later Lord) Duveen.

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