Margaret Messenger, Mrs Walter Strickland (b. 1737)
George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734 – Kendal 1802)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1760
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1210 x 990 mm
Order this imageCollection
Sizergh Castle, Cumbria
NT 998427
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Margaret Messenger, Mrs Walter Strickland (b. 1737) by George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734 – Kendal 1802), 1760. A portrait, seated, as a shepherdess in blue silk gown. Daughter of Michael Messenger of Fountains Hall in Ripon, the sitter married her second cousin Walter Strickland of Sizergh Castle in 1758. Two years later the couple commissioned Romney, then based in nearby Kendal, to paint their likenesses as a pair of pendants at a cost of £10 10s (see NT998426). In the nineteenth century the sitter was formerly misidentified as Mrs Cecilia Strickland.
Provenance
Painted for the sitter and paid for in 1760; Christie's sale, 18 July 1896, lot 20 (bought in); thence by descent; given by Henry Hornyold Strickland (1890 – 1975) with Sizergh Castle and its estates in 1950.
Makers and roles
George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734 – Kendal 1802), artist
References
Kidson 2015 Alex Kidson, George Romney: A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, Yale, 2015, Vol.II, p.557