The Hon. Charlotte Clive (1762-1795)
George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734 – Kendal 1802)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1783 (sittings recorded) - 1785 (payment)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1270 x 1016 mm (50 x 40 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Powis Castle and Garden, Powys
NT 1181065
Caption
Charlotte Clive was the second daughter of Robert, ‘Clive of India’. Her godmother was Queen Charlotte. She travelled widely in Italy, where portraits of her were produced by notable artists including Angelica Kauffman, Charles Grignion, and Hugh Douglas Hamilton. She died unmarried. Sittings for this portrait are recorded in 1783, and a payment of £42 is noted as being ‘received of Miss Charlotte for her portrait half-length’. A letter also survives which requests for ‘Miss Clive’s portrait to be sent to John Robinson, esq [her brother-in-law], Denston Hall, Suffolk’.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Hon. Charlotte Clive (1762-1795) by George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734 – Kendal 1802), 1783-85. A three-quarter-length portrait of the second eldest daughter of Clive of India, wearing a yellow dress with white sleeves, seated in a landscape underneath a tree on the right. Companion painting to T.POW.P.1. In original Romney frame (wrong frame). Sittings are recorded in 1783 and on 1st September : " recieved of Miss Charlotte for her portrait half-length, £42." & "Miss Clive's portrait to be sent to John Robinson, esq [her brother-in-law], Denston Hall, Suffolk...".
Provenance
Accepted by HM Treasury on 21st March, 1963 in lieu of tax, placed on long term loan to the National Trust, then gifted to National Trust on 26th March 1991.
Credit line
Powis Castle, The Powis Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: Inscibed on stretcher: Charlotte Daughter of/ Rober Clive K.B./ By Romney
Makers and roles
George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734 – Kendal 1802), artist