Christina Cameron Campbell, Mrs Henry Spencer Cameron- Lucy (d. 1919)
Giuseppe da Pozzo (Conegliano 1844 - Rome 1919)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1890
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
953 x 648 mm (37 1/2 x 25 1/2 in)
Order this imageCollection
Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 533859
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Christina Cameron Campbell, Mrs Henry Spencer Cameron-Lucy (d. 1919) [?1826 - 1898] by Giuseppe da Pozzo (Conegliano 1844 - Rome 1919), signed in the bottom left corner, G da Pozzo Roma. A full-length portrait of Christina Cameron Campbell, she is seated in a large wooden upright armchair, upholstered in blue. She has a direct gaze to the spectator, she is leaning slightly forward and to her left with her right arm on the arm of the chair and is leaning on her right elbow. She is holding a closed book (with a botanical cover) in her left hand. She has a ring on her right hand. She is dressed in a black dress with a white cap and veil. Her feet are resting on a low upholstered footstool with fringing. Under the footstool is a patterned carpet on a stone floor. To her left is a table, covered in a patterned textile. Various items are on the table including two framed photographs, a bell, a lamp and a selection of small boxes. Framed in a large, carved ornate frame. Christina Cameron Campbell was married to Henry Spencer Lucy, who died 1890, and eldest daughter of Alexander Campbell of Monzie. In 1890 she assumed the name Cameron-Lucy in her widowhood. She is in mourning either for her son Spencer, or her mother-in-law who died a few months earlier. The artist married Isobel Cargill, co-founder of Babbington's Tea Rooms on the Spanish Steps in Rome
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.
Marks and inscriptions
Bottom left corner: Signed 'G da Pozzo Roma'
Makers and roles
Giuseppe da Pozzo (Conegliano 1844 - Rome 1919), artist