William Fulke Lucy (1824-1847) (after Fidanza of 1842)
Orazio (Horace) Manara (Parma 1804 – ?Paris after 1872)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1850
Materials
Oil on canvas (oval)
Measurements
762 x 635 mm (30 x 25 in)
Order this imageCollection
Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 533815
Summary
Oval oil painting canvas, William Fulke Lucy (1824-1847), by Orazio (Horace) Manara (Parma 1804 – ? Paris after 1872), circa 1850. A half-length oval portrait of a young William Fulke Lucy, he is positioned to the right and looking directly at the spectator. He is wearing black coat and white collar. Framed in an oval giltwood frame. Believed to have been copied posthumously from a miniature (by ?Fidanza at Rome in 1842) done from life. William Fulke Lucy (1824-1847) was the son of George Hammond Lucy and Mary Elizabeth Lucy, he succeeded to Charlecote in 1845.
Provenance
Presented to the National Trust by Sir Montgomerie Fairfax-Lucy (1896 – 1965), two years after the death of his father, Sir Henry Ramsay-Fairfax, 3rd Bt (1870 – 1944), with Charlecote Park and its chief contents, in 1946.
Makers and roles
Orazio (Horace) Manara (Parma 1804 – ?Paris after 1872), artist