Portrait of Anne, Lady North (c. 1740-1797), wife of Frederick North, 2nd Baron North, three-quarter-length, in a pink dress and lace shawl with roses at her décolletage, and a lace headdress, by a column

細節

Allan Ramsay, R.A. (Edinburgh 1713-1784 Dover)
Portrait of Anne, Lady North (c. 1740-1797), wife of Frederick North, 2nd Baron North, three-quarter-length, in a pink dress and lace shawl with roses at her décolletage, and a lace headdress, by a column
signed and dated 'A. Ramsay an. 1760' (lower right)
oil on canvas
29¼ x 25 in. (74.3 x 63.5 cm.), with later additions of ½ in. (1.3 cm) to the upper edge; 6¾ in. (17.2 cm.) to the lower edge; 1¾ in. (4.4 cm.) to the left edge; and 3 in. (7.6 cm.) to the right edge

來源

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

出版

A. Smart, ed. J. Ingamells, Allan Ramsay: A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, London, 1999, no. 406, fig. 516.

展覽

London, Kenwood, Iveagh Bequest, Allan Ramsay, 1958, no. 20.

注意事項

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拍品專文

The sitter was the daughter and heiress of George Speke of White Lackington, Somerset. She married the statesman Frederick Lord North, the eldest son of the 1st Earl of Guilford, who succeeded as the 2nd Earl of Guilford (1732-92) in 1790, in May 1756. Her husband, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer and leader of the House (1767-82) and Prime Minister (1770-82), was painted by Ramsay in 1761 (location unknown; A. Smart, op. cit, p. 166, no. 407, fig. 529). The sitter, who was an amateur painter of some distinction, also sat for a portrait to by Sir Joshua Reynolds (D. Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, New Haven and London, p. 352, no. 1342, fig. 280), and in the 1760s was painted together with her husband and one of their children (artist unknown). She died in January 1797, leaving four sons and three daughters.