Louisa Anne Staples, Lady Packenham and Henrietta Margaret Staples, Countess of Clancarty (c.1770-1847)
Hugh Douglas Hamilton (Dublin 1739/40 - Dublin 1808)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1785 - 1808
Materials
Pastel on paper
Measurements
228 x 185 mm
Order this imageCollection
Springhill, County Londonderry
NT 215951
Summary
Pastel on paper (oval), Louisa Anne Staples, Lady Packenham and Henrietta Margaret Staples, Countess of Clancarty (c.1770-1847) by Hugh Douglas Hamilton (Dublin 1736 – Dublin 1808). Two head-and-shoulders portraits of two young woman, turned to the right, gazing at the spectator the other looking down gazing down, both in low cut dresses, the one in the foreground with dark hair and the one behind with blonde hair.
Provenance
Purchased by National Trust in 1957 from William Lowry Lenox-Conyngham (1903–1957), shortly before his death, along with the other contents of Springhill
Makers and roles
Hugh Douglas Hamilton (Dublin 1739/40 - Dublin 1808), pastelist