Félicité Anne Josephe de Wattines, Lady Scarsdale (1765-1850)
Ramsay Richard Reinagle, RA (London 1775 – Chelsea 1862)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1828 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
737 x 610 mm (29 x 24 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 108828
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Félicité Anne Josephe de Wattines, Lady Scarsdale (1765-1850) by Ramsay Richard Reinagle (London 1775 – Chelsea 1862), signed and dated 1828. A half-length portrait of a plump woman, facing, looking to right wearing a red dress with lace collar and a lace bonnet tied under her chin. The sitter was the second wife of the 2nd Baron Scarsdale (m.1798), and grandmother of the 4th Baron. Discreetly described in Burke's Peerage as ‘a Flemish Lady’, she had six children by Lord Scarsdale before the fourth born in wedlock. Reinagle was the son of the portrait and sporting painter Philip Reinagle (1749-1833), and began by helping Allan Ramsay produce his state portraits, whence his son’s name. Ramsay Richard was similarly Hoppner’s assistant for a time, and his style derives from both Hoppner and Lawrence.
Provenance
By descent from the sitter; bought with part of the contents of Kedleston with the aid of the National Heritage Memorial Fund in 1987 when the house and park were given to the National Trust by Francis Curzon, 3rd Viscount Scarsdale (1924-2000)
Credit line
Kedleston Hall, The Scarsdale Collection (acquired with the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund and transferred to The National Trust in 1987)
Marks and inscriptions
RR Reinagle 1828 (artist's signature, painted, top lhs of canvas, black text)
Makers and roles
Ramsay Richard Reinagle, RA (London 1775 – Chelsea 1862), artist