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HOPPNER, John, R.A.      Lady Redesdale     28 1/2 x 36
Painted 1790

An enamel of this painting was made by H. Bone. It was exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1813, Number 593.

Frances, eight child of John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont, by his second wife, Catherine Compton, sister of the 8th Earl of Northampton (which lady was created Baroness Arden of Lohort Castle, Ireland, 23 May, 1770); born December 4, 1767; married June 6, 1803, John Mitford, 1st Lord Redesdale, Lord Chancellor of Ireland; died August 22, 1817.

Seated in a crimson chair, three-quarter-length figure, to knees, facing the spectator, slightly turned to the right; white short-waisted dress, with sash under he arms, a fur pelisse over the left arm; hair falling over forehead almost to the eyebrows; hands resting in lap.

CATALOGUED: in "Hoppner" by McKay and Roberts, 1909, p. 215

Kunstler-Lexikon, Thieme-Becker, Volume XVII, p. 497; on p. 492; it says of the picture that it was painted with greatest skills. The coloring is luminous, and the soft golden tones and wonderful flesh tints pertain to works of Hoppner's maturity.

EXHIBITED: Loan exhibition of Hoppner Paintings at Colnaghi's, London, 1909, No. 11.

"The picture was painted by Hoppner for Mrs. Behrens (nee Walpole), her nièce, and on her death passed to H. S. Vade Walpole, her nephew, my father."
-- The above is quoted from a letter from H. S. Vade Walpole.

From the COLLECTION of H. S. Vade Walpole, Esq., of Stagbury Banstead, England. 

Lent by the Thornton Realty Company