Ellen Adderly, Viscountess Dillon of Costello-Gallin (1809-1896)
Pieter Christoffel Wonder (Utrecht 1780 - Amsterdam - 1852)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1830 - 1852
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
600 x 470 mm
Place of origin
Holland
Order this imageCollection
Basildon Park, Berkshire
NT 266433
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Ellen Adderly, Viscountess Dillon of Costello-Gallin (1809-1896) by Pieter Christoffel Wonder (Utrecht 1780 - Amsterdam - 1852), circa 1830. A full-length portrait showing Ellen Adderly wearing a white dress and sitting in an interior domestic space in the Gothic revival style. She sits before a half curtained gothic arched window with some stained glass. A large table with red cloth is on the right of the scene, and a parrot sitting on bird stand on a pedestal tripod table. She was the daughter of James Adderly (d. 1812) and god-daughter of Sir John Murray, 8th Bt, and married Arthur Edmund Denis Dillon-Lee, 16th Viscount Dillon of Costello-Gallin (1812-1892), son of Henry Augustus Dillon-Lee, 13th Viscount Dillon of Costello-Gallin and Henrietta Browne. Her two children were Harold Arthur Lee-Dillon, 17th Viscount Dillon of Costello-Gallin (1844-1932) and the Hon. Conrad Adderly Dillon (1845-1901).
Credit line
Basildon Park, Dillon Trustees
Makers and roles
Pieter Christoffel Wonder (Utrecht 1780 - Amsterdam - 1852), artist
References
Niemeijer 1965 J. W. Niemeijer, 'P. C. Wonder in Engleland aanvullende gegevens in verband met de compositieschets van Sir John Murray's Kunstgalerij in het Rijksprentenkabinet', Bulleton van het Rijksprentenkabinet, 13, pp. 115-123, 1965 P. C. Wonder (1777-1852) : een Utrechter in Londen, exh. cat. Centraal Museum Utrecht, 19 December 2015 - 13 March 2016, cat. no. 20