Charlotte Newcomen, Lady Gleadowe-Newcomen, 1st Viscountess Newcomen (c.1747-1817) with her Daughters Jane, Teresa and Charlotte in a Garden
Thomas Hickey (Dublin 1741 – Madras 1824)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1770 - 1779
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
749 x 622 mm (29.5 x 24.5 in)
Place of origin
Ireland
Order this imageCollection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 207792
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Charlotte Newcomen, Lady Gleadowe-Newcomen, 1st Viscountess Newcomen (c.1747-1817) with her daughters Jane, Teresa and Charlotte in a garden, by Thomas Hickey (Dublin 1741 – Madras 1824), 1770/80. Viscountess and her daughters Jane, Teresa and Charlotte. Charlotte Newcomen of Carrickglas, Co. Longford, married around 1770 William Gleadowe of Killester, Co. Dublin, who added the name of Newcommen to his own, was made a baronet in 1781 and died in 1807. In consideration of her husband's services in promoting the Union, she was created Baroness in the Irish peerage in 1800, and Viscountess in 1803. Her daughter Theresa married Sir Charles Turner of Kirkleatham. Her only son, the last Viscount, was not born until 1776. Probably painted by Hickey between his return from Italy in 1767 and his departure to India in 1780.
Provenance
Sold Sotheby's, 23rd March, 1949, as Angelica Kauffman; sold by Legatt Brothers to Mrs Bambridge, May 1959 for £500 as Benjamin Wilson; bequeathed by Elsie Kipling, Mrs George Bambridge (1896 - 1976), daughter of Rudyard Kipling, to the National Trust together with Wimpole Hall, all its contents and an estate of 3,000 acres
Credit line
Wimpole Hall, The Bambridge Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Thomas Hickey (Dublin 1741 – Madras 1824), artist Angelica Kauffman RA (Chur 1741 – Rome 1807), artist