拍品 27
27
Sir Leslie Matthew Ward 'Spy' (1851-1922)
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Sir Leslie Matthew Ward 'Spy' (1851-1922)

The Marquis Conyngham, 'Mount' Guardsman

細節
Sir Leslie Matthew Ward 'Spy' (1851-1922)
The Marquis Conyngham, 'Mount'
Guardsman
signed 'Spy' (centre right) and inscribed 'Marquis of' (upper right)
pencil and watercolour heightened with white
10¾ x 7 in. (27.3 x 17.8 cm.)
來源
Thomas Gibson Bowles.
Orginal Drawings for Vanity Fair; Christie's, London, 5 - 8 March 1912, lot 169 (£4 14s. 6d. to Pinto).
Stanley Jackson.
展覽
San Francisco, Stanford University, In Vanity Fair, 30 September - 16 November, 1980.
Hendon, Church Farm House Museum, Vanity Fair 1869-1914, 10 September - 18 December, 1983.
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拍品專文

George Henry Conyngham, 3rd Marquess Conyngham, 'Mount' (1825-1882), was educated at Eton, afterwards embarking on a tour through Egypt, the Holy Land and Greece. On his return, he was made a Cornet in the Scots Greys in Ireland. Several years later, he was transferred to the 1st Life Guards, in which he remained until he was promoted to the rank of Major, at which time he had to retire from the regiment due to ill health. He then served on the staff of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and, in 1870, was appointed Equerry to Queen Victoria. In 1877, his health, once again deteriorating, forced him to become an Extra-Equerry. In his retirement, 'Mount' devoted his time to his family. His nickname, 'Mount' derives from his title of Mountcharles, an area in Donegal.

'Mount' has always been deservedly a favourite. He is a true and faithful friend, and a generous benefactor to the poor; and he has endured with unchanged good temper and unadulterated equanimity the malady which has withdrawn him from active life, and has caused him to live almost wholly on board his yacht.

Vanity Fair, 'Statesmen', No. 349, 1881.