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Lot Essay
The sitters were the daughters of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire and his wife Lady Georgiana Spencer. Lady Georgiana, known as 'Little G' by her mother, married Morpeth, eldest son of the 5th Earl of Carlisle on 21 March 1801 when she was seventeen. They had six sons and six daughters. Morpeth succeeded as the 6th Earl of Carlisle in 1825.
Lady Harriet married Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville who had been her aunt, Henrietta Ponsonby's lover for 18 years and with whom she had two illegitimate children. Lady Harriet bore Granville five children. Granville served as Ambassador to France between 1824 and 1841.
The present portraits compare with a signed and dated miniature by Richard Cosway, R.A., of 1789, in the Spencer Collection at Althorp. Another copy after the Cosway, from the Spencer Collection, was sold Christie's, South Kensington, 7 July 2010, lot 18.
Lady Harriet married Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville who had been her aunt, Henrietta Ponsonby's lover for 18 years and with whom she had two illegitimate children. Lady Harriet bore Granville five children. Granville served as Ambassador to France between 1824 and 1841.
The present portraits compare with a signed and dated miniature by Richard Cosway, R.A., of 1789, in the Spencer Collection at Althorp. Another copy after the Cosway, from the Spencer Collection, was sold Christie's, South Kensington, 7 July 2010, lot 18.