Portrait of Charlotte Maria North (d.1909), full-length, in a pink satin dress with blue ribbons, with a miniature doberman, a camelia in her hand, in a landscape

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English School, 19th Century
Portrait of Charlotte Maria North (d.1909), full-length, in a pink satin dress with blue ribbons, with a miniature doberman, a camelia in her hand, in a landscape
signed with initials 'S.F.C.H.' (lower right)
oil on canvas, unlined
94 x 54¼ in. (238.7 x 57.8 cm.)
in a carved and gilded running pattern frame

Provenance

The Earls of Guilford, and by descent to the present owner.

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Sale room notice

We are grateful to Sir John Guinness for drawing our attention to Farrer's catalogue of portraits of the North family, in which the present portrait is attributed to George Clarke, presumably George Frederick Clarke (fl. 1834-1870).

Lot Essay

The sitter was the third daughter of the Rev. the Hon. William Eden, and wife of Dudley, Lord North (1829-1860), son of Francis, 6th Earl of Guilford. After the death of her husband, Charlotte Maria married secondly Maj. A.G. Dickson, 13th Lt. Dragoons, M.P. Dover. Her first son by Lord North, Dudley Francis, became the 7th Earl.

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