Dorothy Bland, Mrs Jordan (1762-1816)
John Russell (Guildford 1745 – Hull 1806)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1801
Materials
Pastel on paper
Measurements
760 x 610 x 80 mm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Fenton House, London
NT 1449067
Summary
Pastel on paper, Dorothy Bland, Mrs Jordan (1762 - 1816) by John Russell (Guildford 1745 - Hull 1806), 1801. A half-length portrait, head turned slightly to the right to face viewer, she plays a lute upright on her lap. Wearing a blue dress with ruff-like collar. A pink ribbon, attached to the lute, passes behind her back.
Provenance
By descent from the sitter, to her fifth illegitimate son by William, Duke of Clarence (later King William IV); the Reverend Augustus Fitzclarence (1805-1854), Rector of Mapledurham, Chaplain to Queen Victoria; his eldest daughter, Dorothea (1845 -1870), who in 1863 married Captain Thomas William Goff (d. 1876), of Oakport, Co. Roscommon, Ireland; his son, Major [Thomas] Clarence [Edward] Goff (1867 -1949); by whom given, along with The Courts, Holt, Wiltshire, and its other contents, to the National Trust in 1943; on loan originally to his son, the harpsichord-maker, Tom Goff (1898 - 1975) of Pont Street, London; since his death permanently located in Fenton House, Hampstead, London.
Makers and roles
John Russell (Guildford 1745 – Hull 1806), artist