Ada Christina Lucy, Lady Ramsay-Fairfax-Lucy (1866–1943) with her Sisters Joyce Alianore Lucy (1871 - 1948) and Constance Linda Lucy, later Mrs Secker (b.1867)
attributed to Giuseppe da Pozzo (Conegliano 1844 - Rome 1919)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1891
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
711 x 838 mm (28 x 33 in)
Order this imageCollection
Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 533825
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Ada Christina Lucy, Lady Ramsay-Fairfax-Lucy (1866-1943) with her Sisters Joyce Alianore Lucy (1871 - 1948) and Constance Linda Lucy, later Mrs Secker (b.1867), by Giuseppe da Pozzo (Conegliano 1844 - Rome 1919), circa 1891. A square-framed horizontal oval group portrait, of the three daughters of Henry Spencer Lucy (1830 - 1890). Ada Christina Lucy is in the centre of the portrait flanked by her two sisters, she wears a white dress with a large bow and two pink roses to her bust. She has dark brown hair tied up with a ribbon and a red flower. She has a direct gaze with the spectator. Constance Linda is to her left with a hand placed on her arm. Constance Linda is wearing a gold dress with floral detail. She wears a necklace, She has dark brown hair tied up with a ribbon. Constance has a direct gaze with the spectator. On the right is Joyce Alianore, wearing a blue/green dress and a necklace. She has a dark brown hair tied up with a ribbon and flower. Joyce looks slightly to the left of the spectator. Dark background. Framed in an ornate giltwood frame with carved floral details and oval mount.
Full description
The sisters attended three sittings in Italy in April 1891, with Lady Ada Ramsay-Fairfax-Lucy recording in her journal on 25 April, ‘Went to Sig. Da Pozzo again for our picture. He is really a very good-natured nice man. He let me have ‘Needle’ [a dog] to paint in his studio while the others were sitting and lent me his paints etc… Sig. Da P. plays the guitar; he has taught me some tunes and me him’. Although pleased with da Pozzo’s portraits of her parents (NT 533857 and 533859), Lady Ramsay-Fairfax-Lucy noted of the siblings’ portrait, ‘everyone agrees that we are not flattered by any means. Perhaps it is as well when the originals stand there but in a hundred years it will be different.’ (25 July 1891)
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
attributed to Giuseppe da Pozzo (Conegliano 1844 - Rome 1919), artist