Portrait of Mrs. Louisa Lushington, née Faulkner Phillips (1780-1819), half-length

Details

John Hoppner, R.A. (London 1758-1810)
Portrait of Mrs. Louisa Lushington, née Faulkner Phillips (1780-1819), half-length
oil on canvas
30 1/8 x 25 ¼ in. (76.6 x 64.1 cm.)

Provenance

with Agnew's, London, from 4 December 1961 to 7 May 1962.
Mark Phillips, Esq., by 1962.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 28 November 1973, lot 27 (£550 to Douglas).
with Old Hall Gallery, Sussex, where acquired by the La Salle University Art Museum in 1974.

Literature

C.P. Wistar, La Salle College Art Museum Guide to the Collection, Philadelphia, 1984, p. 87, fig. 26.

Lot Essay

Louisa Faulkner Phillips was the daughter of Thomas and Sarah Phillips. On 2 January 1801, she married Edmund Henry Lushington, Esq. (1766-1839), son of Reverend James Stephen Lushington and Mary Law, and a practicing Barrister-at-Law and Bencher of the Inner Temple. He was appointed a Puisne Judge in Ceylon, in 1806, and was elevated to Chief Justice of Ceylon in 1807. On their return to England, he subsequently held the office of Chief Commissioner of the Colonial Board of Audit, and Master of the Crown Office, respectively.

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