Lady Augusta Margaret Fitzclarence (d.1846) as a Girl
John Lucas (London 1807 – St John’s Wood 1874)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1830 - 1846
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
560 x 450 mm
Collection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486227
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Lady Augusta Margaret Fitzclarence (d.1846) as a Girl by John Lucas (London 1807 – St John’s Wood 1874). A half-length portrait of a girl turned three-quarters left, with long hair, her left hand holding a necklance and wearing a white dress with a blue sash.
Provenance
In the collection of the 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837) by 1835. Thence by descent, until the death in 1952 of the 3rd Lord Leconfield, who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-72) arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by H.M.Treasury.
Credit line
Petworth House, The Egremont Collection (acquired in lieu of tax by HM Treasury in 1956 and subsequently transferred to the National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
258 (painted bottom right of canvas)
Makers and roles
John Lucas (London 1807 – St John’s Wood 1874), artist