Lady Margaret Frances Anne Vane-Tempest-Stewart (1910-1966), aged 4, and Lady Helen Maglona Vane-Tempest-Stewart (1911-1986), aged 3
Mary Young Hunter (Napier 1872 - Monterey 1947)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1914 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1730 x 1190 mm
Order this imageCollection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 1221195
Summary
Oil painting on canvas of Lady Margaret Frances Anne Vane-Tempest-Stewart (1910-1966), aged 4, and Lady Helen Maglona Vane-Tempest-Stewart (1911-1986), aged 3, by Mary Young Hunter (Napier 1872 - Monterey 1947), signed and dated 1914. A double portrait of two of the daughters of Charles, 7th Marquess of Londonderry, and Edith, Lady Londonderry, standing in a landscape, gathering flowers, both wearing white dresses with blue sashes and white bonnets with blue ribbons.
Provenance
Accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the National Trust, 2013.
Credit line
Mount Stewart, The Londonderry Collection (accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the National Trust, 2013)
Marks and inscriptions
LADY MARGARET FRANCES ANNE AND LADY HELEN MAGLENA STEWART AGED 3 AND 4 YEARS BY MRS. YOUNG-HUNTER. Bottom left: Mary Y Hunter 1914
Makers and roles
Mary Young Hunter (Napier 1872 - Monterey 1947), artist