Susannah Gale, Lady Gardner (1749-1823)
after Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA (Plympton 1723 - London 1792)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1763 - 1799
Materials
Oil on canvas in gilt frame.
Measurements
2007 x 1168 mm (79 x 46 in)
Order this imageCollection
Clandon Park, Surrey
NT 1441498
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Susannah Gale, later Lady Gardner (1749-1823) after Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA (Plympton 1723 - London 1792). Full-length portrait of a youg girl, turned to the left, gazing at the spectator, wearing a white dress with a pink gown decorated with serpentine ruched robings. She holds a red rose in her right hand. Landscape setting with large trees. Portrait of the wife of Alan Gardner RN, Baron Gardner of Uttoxeter, Admiral of the Red. Great grandmother of 5th Earl of Onslow and daughter of Francis Gale of Liguanea, Jamaica (see possible portrait of him, called 'Colonel Isaac Gale', at Montacute). A copy of the 1763 portrait in the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne made before the original was reduced in size.
Provenance
Purchased by the Department of Environment in 1975 from the 7th Earl, Transferred to the National Trust in 1977.
Makers and roles
after Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA (Plympton 1723 - London 1792), publisher