PORTRAIT OF GEORGIANA ANNE, LADY TOWNSHEND, DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM POYNTZ OF MIDGHAM, BERKSHIRE, THREE-QUARTER-LENGTH, IN A WHITE DRESS WITH A BLUE SASH AND BLACK CLOAK

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GEORGE ROMNEY (1734-1802)
PORTRAIT OF GEORGIANA ANNE, LADY TOWNSHEND, DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM POYNTZ OF MIDGHAM, BERKSHIRE, THREE-QUARTER-LENGTH, IN A WHITE DRESS WITH A BLUE SASH AND BLACK CLOAK
WITH IDENTIFYING INSCRIPTION
OIL ON CANVAS
30½ X 25½ IN. (77.5 X 64.8 CM.)

來源

BY DESCENT TO 6TH MARQUESS TOWNSHEND (1866-1921).
SALE OF THE TOWNSHEND HEIRLOOMS FROM RAYNHAM HALL, NORFOLK; CHRISTIE'S, LONDON, 5 MARCH 1904, LOT 95 (3000 GNS. TO WERTHEIMER).
WITH THOMAS AGNEW & SONS, LTD. LONDON.
THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING UNION, NEW YORK.

出版

H. WARD & W. ROBERTS, ROMNEY. A BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL ESSAY WITH A CATALOGUE RAISONNE OF HIS WORKS, LONDON, 1904, VOL. II, P. 160.

注意事項

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

拍品專文

THE SITTER, WAS THE DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM POYNTZ OF MIDGHAM, BERKSHIRE AND GRAND-DAUGHTER OF THE DIPLOMAT STEPHEN POYNTZ, WHO AS AN INFLUENTIAL FIGURE AT THE COURT OF KING GEORGE II, HAD BEEN APPOINTED GOVERNOR TO THE KING'S SECOND SON, THE DUKE OF CUMBERLAND. IN 1784, THE SITTER MARRIED WILLIAM AUGUSTUS FAWKENER, CLERK TO THE PRIVY COUNCIL AND SON OF SIR EDWARD FAWKENER, FORMER AMBASSADOR AT CONSTANTINOPLE. SHE MET LORD JOHN TOWNSHEND (1757-1833), SECOND SON OF GEORGE, 1ST MARQUESS TOWNSHEND, AT ONE OF HER COUSIN, GEORGIANA, DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE'S PARTIES AT DEVONSHIRE HOUSE, AND MARRIED HIM IN APRIL 1787, THE SAME MONTH THAT HER MARRIAGE TO FAWKENER HAD BEEN DISSOLVED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT. LADY TOWNSHEND WAS A WHIG HOSTESS AND HER HUSBAND, MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FOR CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY (1780-84), WESTMINSTER (1788-90) AND KNARESBOROUGH (1793-1818), WAS A CLOSE FRIEND OF THE WHIG LEADER, CHARLES JAMES FOX, AFTER WHOM HIS ELDEST SON WAS NAMED. SITTINGS AND MEETINGS FOR THIS PORTRAIT OF LADY JOHN TOWNSHEND ARE RECORDED IN ROMNEY'S DIARIES BETWEEN 1792 AND 1793 AND THE PENDANT OF HER HUSBAND WAS SENT TO JERWIN WATER, NEAR HIS SEAT AT BALLS PARK, HERTFORDSHIRE IN 1794.