Augusta Frances Anne Hoare (1845-1922)
Sir Frederic Leighton, Lord Leighton PRA (Scarborough 1830 – Kensington 1896)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1860 (monogrammed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
597 x 464 mm (23 1/2 x 18 1/4 in)
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 732280
Caption
‘Gussy’, Augusta Frances Anne Hoare, was the only daughter and surviving child of Augusta Frances East and Sir Henry Ainslie Hoare, 5th Bt when she was painted in London by Frederic Leighton, who was a friend of her mother, and whom he had painted two years earlier. In this portrait she is only 14 ½ years old and her youth is denoted by the smock she wears over her dress. She later married William John Nettleship Angerstein (d.1892) in 1868 and secondly Colonel J. St Aubyn Hastie (d. 1901) in 1894.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Augusta Frances Anne Hoare (1845 - 1922) by Frederic, Lord Leighton PRA (Scarborough 1830 - Kensington 1896), signed and dated: L 60 [1860]. A portrait bust painting of ‘Gussy’, the only daughter and surviving child of Augusta Frances East and Sir Henry Ainslie Hoare, 5th Bt. She is in profile to looking to the left, wearing a smock over her dress. It was painted in London by Frederic Leighton, who was a friend of the sitter’s mother, when she was 14 ½ years old. She was later married firstly to William John Nettleship Angerstein (d.1892) in 1868 and, secondly, to Colonel J. St Aubyn Hastie (d. 1901) in 1894.
Provenance
By inheritance by her first cousin once removed; given to the National Trust along with the house, its grounds, and the rest of the contents by Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Bt (1865 – 1947) in 1946
Credit line
Stourhead, The Hoare Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Sir Frederic Leighton, Lord Leighton PRA (Scarborough 1830 – Kensington 1896), artist