Sir Francis Grant, P.R.A. (1803-1878)

Portrait of a young girl, probably Lady Adelaide Emelina Caroline Vane (1830-1882), small three-quarter-length, in a white dress with pink ribbons, with a terrier on her lap, in a park landscape

Details

Sir Francis Grant, P.R.A. (1803-1878)
Portrait of a young girl, probably Lady Adelaide Emelina Caroline Vane (1830-1882), small three-quarter-length, in a white dress with pink ribbons, with a terrier on her lap, in a park landscape
oil on canvas
17¼ x 13½ in. (44 x 34.3 cm.)

Literature

Photographed in situ in the boudoir at Wynyard Park, County Durham, circa 1890.
Wynyard Park inventory, 1965, vol. ii, p. 113, white bedroom.

Sale room notice

We are grateful to Dr Catherine Wills for suggesting that the painting was executed in the 1830s and therefore depicts and earlier sitter than that suggested in the catalogue entry.

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Lot Essay

In 1852 Grant painted a portrait of Frances Anne, Marchioness of Londonderry, which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1853 (no. 398). It is possible that Grant was commissioned concurrently to paint the present portrait of her youngest daughter, who was to be married to Reverend Frederick Henry Law in the same year. By the time the portrait was painted the Londonderrys' other daughters had married: Lady Frances Anne Emily Vane (1822-1899) married John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough on 12 July 1843; and Lady Alexandrina Octavia Maria Vane (1823-1874) married Henry John Reuben Dawson-Damer, 3rd Earl of Portarlington on 3 September 1847.

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