The Hon. Elizabeth Evelyn Harbord, Lady Hastings (1860 - 1956)
Archibald James Stuart-Wortley (1849-1905)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1880 (monogrammed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1403 x 1099 mm (55 ¼ x 43 ¼ in)
Order this imageCollection
Seaton Delaval Hall, Northumberland
NT 1276800
Caption
This Lady Hastings was the daughter of Charles Harbord, 5th Baron Suffield and Cecilia Annetta Baring. In 1880 she married George, 20th Baron Hastings (1857 – 1904), and bore him six children. Their eldest child, Lt. Col. Sir Albert Astley, succeeded to the title as 20th Baron Hastings (1882 – 1956). The artist was grandson of the 1st Baron Wharncliffe. He worked as a portrait painter and an illustrator. He was a pupil of Millias, and became founder and first President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. This portrait was engraved by Frederick John Jenkins.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Hon. Elizabeth Evelyn Harbord, Lady Hastings (1860 - 1956) by Archibald Stuart-Wortley (1849-1905), with monogram and dated, bottom left,in black 1880. Full-length, seated, wearing a white dress with a pink belt, a matching pink hat, leaning on a balcony and holding a flower; a wooded landscape beyond.
Provenance
accepted in lieu of tax by H.M. Treasury and transferred to the National Trust in 2009.
Marks and inscriptions
Bottom left: signed in monogram and dated 1800 Reverse of painting, horizontal crossmember: Label, handwritten, The Hon Elizabeth Harbord …..? wide of George (?) 20th Lord Hastings. Painted 1890 - aged 30 by Hon Archibald Stuart Westley Stretcher bar top: Label, printed and handwritten 'Charles Roberson & Co' Inscription pencil - stretcher bar - top, margin 'Elizabeth Lady Hastings, painted by A.S.W 1890
Makers and roles
Archibald James Stuart-Wortley (1849-1905) , artist