Elizabeth Fortescue, Countess of Ancram, later Marchioness of Lothian (1745-1780)
Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA (Plympton 1723 - London 1792)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1769 (bill payment)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
740 x 610 mm
Order this imageCollection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 355524
Caption
The sitter was the daughter of Chichester Fortescue. She married, in 1762, the Earl of Ancram, who succeeded as 5th Marquess of Lothian in 1775. Their eldest son, the 6th Marquess of Lothian, married Harriet Hobart, the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire's eldest daughter, in 1793. By their marriage, Blickling passed to the Lothian family. Various sittings for this portrait are recorded in Reynolds’s notebook. Opposite 19th July appears the entry, ‘Lady Ancram to be packed.’
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Elizabeth Fortescue, Countess of Ancram, later Marchioness of Lothian (1745-1780) by Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA (Plympton 1723 - London 1792), 1769. A half-length portrait, head and gaze to the right, wearing a red ermine-trimmed robe over white dress with white fichu at neck. Her eldest son, the 6th Marquess of Lothian, married Harriet Hobart, the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire's eldest daughter, in 1793. By their marriage, Blickling passed to the Lothian family.
Provenance
A payment of £ 26 5s was made by Lady Ancram on June 7th 1769; passed into possession of her grandson, the Earl of Antrim who sold it to Henri Louis Bischoffsheim; thence by descent to Lady Mildred Fitzgerald (1878-1969), by whom bequeathed via her husband to the National Trust
Credit line
Blickling Hall, The Lothian Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA (Plympton 1723 - London 1792)