Lady Jemima Campbell, Marchioness Grey, Countess of Hardwicke (1722–1797)
Allan Ramsay (Edinburgh 1713 - Dover 1784)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1741 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1720 x 1340 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 207812.1
Caption
The sitter was the only daughter of John Campbell, 3rd Earl of Breadalbane (1696–1782) and Lady Amabel de Grey (died 1727), eldest daughter and co-heir of Henry de Grey, Duke of Kent, upon whose demise in 1740 Lady Jemima Campbell became Marchioness Grey by special remainder. In May 1740 she married the Hon. Philip Yorke, later 2nd Earl of Hardwicke (1720–1790), who lived at Wimpole. They only had two daughters: Lady Amabel Yorke (1752–1833), and Lady Mary Jemima Yorke (died 1830). Ramsay painted two other portraits of Jemima Marchioness de Grey in Van Dyck dress for her in-laws in the same year. On 10 June 1741, the Yorkes’ chaplain and tutor, Dr Thomas Birch, visited Ramsay’s studio in Covent Garden, and saw one of the portraits of the present sitter.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Lady Jemima Campbell, Marchioness Grey, Countess of Hardwicke (c.1720 – 1797) by Allan Ramsay (Edinburgh 1713 - Dover 1784), signed, on the right, on the plinth A. Ramsay 1741, and inscribed, before 1752, with the sitter's identity: Jemima Marchioness Grey Daughter of John /Lord Glenorchy married Ano. 1740 to the Honble. Philip Yorke Eldest Son of the Right /Honble. Philip Lord ardwicke Lord/ High Chancellor of Great Britain. She was the daughter of John, Viscount Glenorchy, later 3rd Earl Breadalbane, and Lady Amabel de Grey (daughter and co-heir of Henry, Duke of Kent), whom she succeeded as Marchioness Grey in 1740. In the same year she married the Hon. Philip Yorke, later 2nd Earl of Hardwicke. One of three portraits painted by Ramsay in 1741 in the same Van Dyck dress in each.
Provenance
By family descent to John Campbell, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane (1796 - 1862), Taymouth Castle; Breadalbane sale, Lt- Colonel T.G. Breadalbane-Morgan-Grenville-Gavin (1891 - 1965) of Langton, Duns, Berwicks., Christie's, 27 March 1925 (122), bought Gordon Major J. Abbey, from whom bought by Mrs Elsie Bambridge (1896-1976) by whom bequeathed to the National Trust.
Credit line
Wimpole Hall, The Bambridge Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Allan Ramsay (Edinburgh 1713 - Dover 1784), artist
References
Smart and Ingamells 1999 Alastair Smart and John Ingamells (ed.), Allan Ramsay A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, New Haven and London, Yale, 1999, no. 242, fig. 77