Ellen Goodwin, Mrs Henry Case-Morewood (1740/41-1823)
Joseph Wright of Derby (Derby 1734 - Derby 1797)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1782 (initialled and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas in gilt frame.
Measurements
1335 x 1005 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Clandon Park, Surrey
NT 1440718
Summary
[Destroyed in the fire of 2015] Oil painting on canvas, Ellen (Helen) Goodwin, Mrs Henry Case-Morewood (1740/41-1823) by Joseph Wright of Derby, ARA, (Derby 1734 - Derby 1797), signed and dated: I. W. P. 82 [1782]. A full-length portrait of a woman, turned to the left gazing at the spectator, seated on the stump of a tree in a woodland setting, her left leg crossed over her right, her right elbow resting on her knee. A gap in the trees on the left, reveals a distant hill. She married Henry Case, bachelor rector of Ladbroke, Warwickshire in 1793, having been the wife of George Morewood of Alfreton Hall, Derbyshire (d.1792). He took the name of Morewood but predeceased her without children. She left the house and its contents to her sister's children, the Palmers, who also assumed the name of Morewood.
Provenance
Commissioned from the artist 11 years before her marriage to her second husband; Palmer-Morewood family; on loan to the Brighton Art Gallery from before 1968, and to the National Trust from 1981 until accepted by HM Treasury in lieu of tax on the estate of Mr R.C.A. Palmer-Morewood (1879 -1957), and transferred to the National Trust for Hatchlands, April 1984; on loan to Clandon Park since 2002
Marks and inscriptions
Initialled I. W. P. 82 [1782].
Makers and roles
Joseph Wright of Derby (Derby 1734 - Derby 1797), artist
References
Nicolson 1968 Benedict Nicolson, Joseph Wright of Derby, London, 1968, Cat.109, vol.I, pp.17, 72, & 212-13; vol.II, pl.224.