Mary, Countess of Delorain (1705-1737), three-quarter length, in a white dress by an orange tree, a landscape beyond

Details

John Vanderbank (London 1694-1739)
Mary, Countess of Delorain (1705-1737), three-quarter length, in a white dress by an orange tree, a landscape beyond
signed and dated 'Jn. Vanderbank / Fecit 1736' (lower right)
oil on canvas
49 ¾ x 40 in. (126.4 x 101.6 cm.)

Provenance

(Probably) In the sitter's family at Earsham Hall, Norfolk, and by decent to,
Major John W. Meade; Christie's, London, 26 April 1985, lot 88.
Property from the Ted Church Estate sold for the benefit of Shelburne Museum; Sotheby's, New York, 26 January 2012, lot 196, when acquired by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

The sitter was the daughter of Matthew Lister of Burwell, Lincolnshire. She married firstly Thomas Heardson of Claythorpe before 1732 and, secondly, Francis Scott, 2nd Earl of Delorain (1710-1739), on 29 October 1732. She died on 16 June 1737, the year after she sat to Vanderbank for this portrait, and was buried in Lincoln Cathedral.

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