Lady Caroline Colyear, Lady Scarsdale (1733-1812)
attributed to Nathaniel Hone the elder, RA (Dublin 1718 – London 1784)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1758
Materials
Oil on canvas (oval)
Measurements
559 x 457 mm (22 x 18 in)
Place of origin
Great Britain
Order this imageCollection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 108804
Summary
Oil painting on canvas (oval), Lady Caroline Colyear, Lady Scarsdale (1733-1812), attributed to Nathaniel Hone the elder, RA (Dublin 1718 – London 1784), 1758. A head-and-shoulders portrait facing, head inclined slightly to the left, gazing at the spectator, wearing a white dress with frilled collar. A preliminary study related to Hone's 1761 full length portrayal of her and her husband, now located in the Dressing Room (KED/P74). Nathaniel Hone evidently painted at least two of the children of the 2nd Earl of Portmore. It must therefore have been Lady Scarsdale who introduced the painter to her husband, resulting in the charmingly informal portrait of the two of them taking a walk (no.74). A rather odd picture, not up to the quality of Hone, nor signed by him. Possibly the painting acquired by Lord Curzon, to make up for the loss of Lady Scarsdale recorded in Lord Scarsdale’s Dressing Room by around 1787, curiously described as a collaboration between Hone and William Hamilton.
Provenance
Recorded in Lord Scarsdale’s Dressing Room around 1778; and thence by descent from the sitter until gifted to the National Trust in 1986 by Francis Curzon, 3rd Viscount Scarsdale (1924-2000).
Credit line
Kedleston Hall, The Scarsdale Collection (acquired with the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund and transferred to The National Trust in 1987)
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: mark - painted - rhs of canvas - gold text - Rt Hon. Lady Scarsdale 1758 Verso: Label on stretcher, inscribed: Supposed to be Carolina, First Lady Scarsdale. Born 1733. Died 1812. Buried at Kedleston.
Makers and roles
attributed to Nathaniel Hone the elder, RA (Dublin 1718 – London 1784), artist