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anonymous: Portrait of Lady Elizabeth Leveson-Gower (1797-1891)   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Henry T. Greenhead,
After Thomas Lawrence  (1769–1830)  wikidata:Q312096 s:en:Portal:Thomas Lawrence
 
After Thomas Lawrence
Description British painter and portraitist
Date of birth/death 13 April 1769 Edit this at Wikidata 7 January 1830 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Bristol London
Work period 1780 Edit this at Wikidata–1830 Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q4233718,P1877,Q312096
Title
Portrait of Lady Elizabeth Leveson-Gower (1797-1891)
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description

Hand-colored 1891 mezzotint engraving by Henry T Greenhead of Lawrence's portrait of Lady Elizabeth Leveson-Gower, later Marchioness of Westminster, wife of the 2nd Marquess of Westminster. Lawrence's portrait was painted when she was 21, before her marriage.

Charles Robert Leslie considered this portrait to be "the most beautiful of Lawrence's female heads," and a perfect example of how his best portraits were sometimes the ones he worked on only briefly. Lawrence completed this portrait in one two-hour sitting. In 1881, Lady Westminster recalled Lawrence and her sitting for the portrait 63 years before:

His manners were what is called extremely 'polished' (not the fault of the present times). He wore a large cravat, and had a tinge about him of the time of George IV., pervading his general demeanor. . . . I should not say he was amusing, but what struck me most, during my two hours sitting in Russell Square, was the perfection of the drawing of his portraits. Before any color was put on, the drawing itself was so perfectly beautiful that it seemed almost a sin to add any color.

Lawrence painted her seated half-length, body facing front with head turned in three-quarter profile to right; wearing a sheer gauze over-dress with long full ruffled sleeves over a white satin slip with short puffed sleeves and a thin blue sash under the bust, no jewels except for a small brooch at the bust, and her black hair in a topknot with ringlets.
Date 1818 (original portrait); 1891 (engraving)
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
(original portrait); mezzotint print (engraving)
Dimensions height: 76 cm (29.9 in); width: 63 cm (24.8 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,76U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,63U174728
(original portrait)
Current location
Original portrait probably in a private collection.
Place of creation Russell Square, Middlesex (now London)
Object history by 1954
date QS:P,+1954-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1954-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: in collection of the Duke of Sutherland
Exhibition history Royal Academy summer exhibition, Somerset House, 1818 , cat. no.  53, as Lady Elizabeth Leveson-Gower
Notes

An engraving of this portrait (by J. Thomson) was first published in 1825 as Lady Elizabeth Belgrave, which was her title at the time. An engraving by Robert Graves was published by Longman in 1829, as Viscountess Belgrave. An engraving by Samuel Cousins was published by Colnaghi in 1833 and by Henry Graves 1844 as Elizabeth, Countess Grosvenor. Also in 1833 it was engraved by Charles Turner. It was engraved in 1891 by Henry T Greenhead as Elizabeth, Countess Grosvenor.

In 1954 the Duke of Norfolk held a painted replica (by Lawrence's hand).
References

Garlick, Kenneth (1989) Sir Thomas Lawrence: A Complete Catalogue of the Oil Paintings, Washington Square, N.Y.: New York University Press, no. 490 ISBN: 9780814730225.

Garlick, Kenneth (1954) Sir Thomas Lawrence, English master painters, London: Routledge & Paul, p. 46 OCLC: 1209569.

(1913-01). Les Arts: reproduced.

(1907) Sir Thomas Lawrence, Masters in Art, Bates & Guild Company, p. 38, Plate V

Willing, Thomson (1895) Some Old Time Beauties, Boston: Joseph Knight Company, p. 113, plate

Leslie, Charles Robert (1855) A Hand-Book for Young Painters, London: J. Murray, p. 306 OCLC: 3060170.
Source/Photographer http://www.intaglio-fine-art.com/images/tre209.jpg
Other versions
  • plate from Some Old Time Beauties at Project Gutenberg
    plate from Some Old Time Beauties at Project Gutenberg
  • miniature portrait copy
    miniature portrait copy

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