Portrait of Lady Mildmay, standing three-quarter-length, in a white dress, with her child, a landscape beyond

Details

John Hoppner, R.A. London 1758-1810
Portrait of Lady Mildmay, standing three-quarter-length, in a white dress, with her child, a landscape beyond
oil on canvas
75 x 53 3/8 in. 190.5 x 135.6 cm.

Provenance

By descent in the family to Sir Henry Mildmay, 5th Bart.

Literature

W. McKay et al., John Hoppner, R.A., London, 1909, pp. 171-72, illustrated.

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, 1803, no. 155.
London, P. and D. Colnaghi, 1907, no. 12.

Engraved

W. Say, mezzotint, 25 x 16¼ in., 10 March 1810.
H. Scott Bridgwater, 24¾ x 16 in., 1908.

Lot Essay

The sitter was the daughter of Carew Mildmay, Esq., of Shawford House, Hants. On 22 June 1786 she married Sir Henry Paulet, 3rd Bt., who took the name of Mildmay on the succession of his wife to the estates of Hayle Grove, Somerset, and Marks, Essex. Lady Mildmay had twelve children and died in Eaton Square, 6 May 1857, aged 92. The child in the present portrait is her eighth son, Edward, born 7 July 1797. He married firstly Marianne, daughter of R. Sherson, Esq. (divorced 1830) and secondly, Frances L. P. Perceval on 30 July 1835. Edward died on 16 May 1868.

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