Violet Marcia Catherine Warwick Bampfylde, Countess of Onslow (1883 -1954) (after Reynolds's Catherine, Lady Bampfylde, 1776)
Daniel Albert Veresmith (Cleveland, Ohio 1861 - 1932)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1910 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil, canvas
Measurements
1422 x 1105 mm (56 x 43 1/2 in)
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Clandon Park, Surrey
NT 1441507
Summary
[Destroyed in the fire of 2015] Oil painting on canvas, Violet Marcia Catherine Warwick Bampfylde, Countess of Onslow (d.1954) (after Reynolds's Catherine, Lady Bampfylde, 1776) by Daniel Albert Veresmith (Wehrschmidt) (Cleveland, Ohio 1861 - 1932), signed and dated: D. A. Wehrschmidt 1910. The original painting of Catherine Moore, Lady Bampfylde, is in Tate Britain (bequeathed by Alfred de Rothschild in 1918) and was painted as a marriage portrait between 1776 and 1777, when it was exhibited at the Royal Academy. A full-length portrait of the wife of the Richard, 5th Earl of Onslow (1876 - 1945) whom he married in 1906, in a landscape.
Provenance
Purchased in 1991 with the aid of a grant from the V&A Museum Purchase Grant Fund
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: Brass plaque on frame reads: “Catherine, Eldest Daughter of Admiral Sir John Moore Bart KB and Wife of Sir Charles Bamfylde 5th Bart DCL MP for Exeter 1753-1823* After the Picture by Sir Joshua Reynolds in the National Gallery”
Makers and roles
Daniel Albert Veresmith (Cleveland, Ohio 1861 - 1932) , artist
References
Mannings 2000: David Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds: A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings. The Subject Pictures catalogued by Martin Postle, New Haven & London 2000, vol.1, p.71, vol.2, p.463, fig.1179