Lady Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana Howard, Duchess of Sutherland (1806 – 1868) (after Sir Thomas Lawrence)
Reuben Thomas William Sayers (1815-1888)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1825 - 1888
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
900 x 700 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1129256
Caption
An inscription on the back of this picture states that it was painted after a portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence. However, the only portrait of the Duchess that has been recorded is a double portrait with her daughter Elizabeth (in the collection of the Duke of Sutherland). Lady Harriet was the daughter of George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle (1773-1844) and Georgiana Dorothy Cavendish (1783-1858), daughter of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire (1748-1811). She married, in 1823, George Granville Leveson-Gower (1786-1861), Earl Gower, later, 2nd Duke of Sutherland. She later became Mistress of the Robes to Queen Victoria. Their daughter, Elizabeth Georgiana (1824-1878), became Duchess of Argyll.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Lady Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana Howard, Duchess of Sutherland (1806 – 1868) (after Sir Thomas Lawrence) by Reuben Thomas William Sayers (1815-1888). Half-length portrait, seated, facing, head to left, wearing dark dress with rose.
Provenance
Probably at Chiswick; in Lady Louisa Cavendish 1860 catalogue of Hardwick Hall; thence by inheritance until, following the death of Edward William Spencer Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire (1895 - 1950), Hardwick Hall and its contents were accepted by HM Treasury in part payment of death duties and transferred to the National Trust, in 1959
Credit line
Hardwick Hall, The Devonshire Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
on verso Painted by Sayers after Lawrence
Makers and roles
Reuben Thomas William Sayers (1815-1888), artist after Sir Thomas Lawrence, PRA (Bristol 1769 – London 1830), artist