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)
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1892
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
711 x 838 mm (28 x 33 in)
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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), British (English) School, circa 1892. 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.
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
British (English) School, artist