Lady Caroline Colyear, Lady Scarsdale (1733-1812)
attributed to Nathaniel Hone the elder, RA (Dublin 1718 – London 1784)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1758 (inscribed)
Materials
Oil on canvas (oval)
Measurements
660 x 559 mm (26 x 22 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 108826
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Lady Caroline Colyear, Lady Scarsdale (1733-1812), attributed to Nathaniel Hone the elder, RA (Dublin 1718 – London 1784), inscribed: Rt. Hon. Lady Scarsdale 1758. An oval half-length portrait of a young woman, the eldest daughter of the 2nd Earl of Portmore and the Dowager Duchess of Leeds, and sister of David, Viscount Milsington (KED/P/72), facing in white muslin dress with a large black hat, turned very slightly to right, gazing at spectator, head slightly inclined to the left, wearing a large frilled gauze (?) fichu. She married Nathaniel Curzon, later lst Baron Scarsdale. Apparently a preliminary study or portrait related to Hone’s 1761 full-length portrayal of her walking with her husband. Another portrait of her by the same artist but painted 20 years later is in the Fitzwiliam Museum, Cambridge.
Provenance
Recorded in Lord Scarsdale’s Dressing Room by c.1778; and thence by descnet until bought with part of the contents of Kedleston with the aid of the National Heritage Memorial Fund in 1987 when the house and park were given to the National Trust 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: inscribed in gold letters, round mif right rim: Rt. Hon. Lady Scarsdale 1758 Verso: Inscribed in pencil on back of stretcher, top left: upside down [the earlier?]: Over the Bed (?) on top of State […..] (?); inscribed above this, right way up: Over Print Room door / 59 Verso: 20th century label on back of frame: The 1st Lady Scarsdale painted in 1758, when 25 years old - see inscription in black letters right hand side. [label no longer there, when inspected 11.ii.1999. ADL] Verso: Label (punched 1d-a- letter type): Angelica Kauffman 1758
Makers and roles
attributed to Nathaniel Hone the elder, RA (Dublin 1718 – London 1784), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Henry Robert Morland (1712/19 – London 1797), artist
References
Retford 2003 Kate Retford, “Sensibility and genealogy in the eighteenth-century family portrait: the collection at Kedleston Hall.” Historical Journal 46.3 (2003), pp.533-560