Portrait of Alice Caulfeild, daughter of William, 1st Viscount Charlemont, three-quarter-length, in a blue dress, seated in an interior

Details

Joseph Highmore (1692-1780)
Portrait of Alice Caulfeild, daughter of William, 1st Viscount Charlemont, three-quarter-length, in a blue dress, seated in an interior
with identifying inscription (upper right)
oil on unlined canvas, unframed
50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.6 cm.)

Provenance

James Duff, 4th Earl of Fife, Duff House, Banff, recorded on the Great Stair, no. 28, in 1798, and by descent to
Alexander William George, 1st Duke of Fife, and by inheritance to his wife
H.R.H. Princess Louise Victoria Alexandra Dagmar, The Princess Royal, Duff House, Banff.
Mrs. J.M. Carpenter.

Literature

Catalogue of the Collection of the Earl of Fife, Duff House, 1798, no. 31.

Exhibited

Auckland, Loan Exhibition of Antiques, 26 September - 4 October, 1935, no. 650.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The sitter was the daughter of William Caulfeild (d.1671), 1st Viscount Charlemont, and Sarah, second daughter of Charles, Viscount Drogheda. In 1693, following the death of her first husband James Margetson, she married George Carpenter of Holme, Herefordshire, who in 1719 was created Lord Carpenter of Killaghy, Co. Kilkenny, in recognition of his support and defence of the protestant succession of King George I.

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