Lady Anne Culling Smith and Two Children (Lady Anne Fitzroy and her Daughters) (after Hoppner)
Henry Scott Bridgwater (1864 - 1950)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1794 (after)
Materials
Mezzotint on paper
Measurements
850 x 650 mm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 22895
Summary
Mezzotint on paper, Lady Anne Culling Smith and Two Children (Lady Anne Fitzroy and her Daughters) (after Hoppner) by Henry Scott Bridgwater (1864 - 1950). A three-quarter-length portrait of Lady Anne, partially disguised with a kerchief on her haed is standing facing one child and carrying the other on her shoulders; all in front of a tree. Lady Anne Wesley, Lady Fitzroy and later Lady Culling Smith (1768 - 1844) was the sister of the Duke of Wellington who owned the original 1794 picture (now at the country seat, Stratfield Saye, Hampshire) by John Hoppner and her two daughters from her first marriage to the Hon. Henry FitzRoy (d. 1794): Anne Caroline Fitzroy (1790/1 - 1835) and Georgiana Frederica Fitzroy, later Duchess of Beaufort (1791 - 1821). Two labels on the back, the larger handwritten label reads - The / Lady Anne Culling Smith / after J. Hoppner / (by H. Scott Bridgwater / Artist proof engraving). Smaller printed label reads - VICARS BROTHERS. / DEALERS IN / HIGH CLASS PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS. / PRINTSELLERS AND PRINTERS / 12, OLD BOND ST. / LONDON. Two metal rings towards top left and right back of frame, string attached to both.
Provenance
Purchased by the National Trust from the estate of the late George Richard Lawley Gibbs, 2nd Baron Wraxall (1928 – 2001) with the assistance of the NHMF, the Art Fund and donations from members and supporters in 2002
Credit line
Tyntesfield, The Gibbs Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Henry Scott Bridgwater (1864 - 1950), engraver (printmaker) after John Hoppner, RA (London 1758 – London 1810), artist
References
Baetjer 2009 Katharine Baetjer, British Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875, New York, 2009, p. 194, fog. 127