Lady Juliana Dawkins (1735-1821)
after Gavin Hamilton (Murdiestone House, Lanark 1723 - Rome 1798)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1755 - 1759
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
762 x 622 mm (30 x 24 1/2 in)
Order this imageCollection
Penrhyn Castle, Gwynedd
NT 1421763
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Lady Juliana Dawkins (1735-1821), after Gavin Hamilton (Murdiestone House, Lanark 1723 - Rome 1798) - previously attributed to after Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Lucca 1708 – Rome 1787). A head-and-shoulders oval painted portrait of the daughter of the 2nd Earl of Portmore, and sister of William Colyear, Viscount Milsington, later 3rd Earl of Portmore (1745-1823), face upturned. She is turned slightly to the left, head turned back over her proper left shoulder, looking right; wearing white dress with lace fichu, and a salmon-pink cloak over her shoulders, with a gauze scarf in her black hair; brown eyes. She married Henry Dawkins in 1759. George Hay Dawkins-Pennant was their second son. Previously anonymous, this was identified by Alice Douglas Pennant by comparison with the likeness of Lady Juliana in the Dawkins Family Group at Penrhyn.. Although it looks like a copy of a Batoni, no original is known..
Provenance
By descent from the sitter; thence by descent to Hugh Napier Douglas Pennant, 4th Baron Penrhyn of Llangedai (1894 – 1949), who left Penryhn and its estates to his niece, Lady Janet Marcia Rose Pelham (1923 - 1997), who with her husband John Charles Harper, thereupon assumed the name of Douglas Pennant, and in 1951 made over the castle and part of its contents in lieu of death-duties to HM Treasury (from the estate of Hugh, 4th Baron Penrhyn (1894 – 1949), which transferred them to the National Trust for display at Penrhyn Castle, 1961.
Credit line
Penrhyn Castle, The Douglas Pennant Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
after Gavin Hamilton (Murdiestone House, Lanark 1723 - Rome 1798) , artist previously catalogued as after Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Lucca 1708 – Rome 1787), artist
References
Penrhyn Castle, Douglas-Pennant 1902 Hon. Alice Douglas-Pennant, Catalogue of the Picture at Penrhyn Castle and Mortimer House in 1901, 1902, no.116