Charlotte Gilding, Lady Iliffe (1881 -1972)
Cecil Stuart Jameson (Christchurch 1884 - 1973)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1933
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
800 x 584 mm (31 1/2 x 23 in)
Order this imageCollection
Basildon Park, Berkshire
NT 266418
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Charlotte Gilding, Lady Iliffe (1881-1972) by Cecil Jameson (1883 - 1962), signed, lower left: Cecil/ Jameson. A three-quarter length portrait of Charlotte, Lady Iliffe, seated, facing the spectator, her hands clasped and held in her lap. She wears a pearl-grey dress and a loose jacket of cream silk with black details on the cuffs and collar. She wears a three-strand pearl necklace and drop earrings. There is a ring with a blue stone on the third finger of her left hand. Her brown hair is fastened up in a style of the 1930s. Her clothes also indicate a date of this period. She is set against a dark background. She was the daughter of Henry Gilding of Gateacre, near Liverpool. On 18 January 1902, she married Sir Edward Mauger Iliffe 1st Baron Iliffe (1877-1960) son of William Isaac Iliffe and Annette Coker. Her husband was created 1st Baron Iliffe of Yattenden in 1933. He was a British newspaper magnate, public servant and Conservative Member of Parliament. She survived her husband as Dowager Baroness Illiffe (1960-1972). Lady Iliffe died at Yattenden Court, near Newbury in Berkshire, aged ninety on 18 January 1972. She left three children: the Hon. Kathleen Iliffe (d.1988), Edward Langton Iliffe, 2nd Baron Iliffe (1908-1996) and the Hon. William Henry Richard Iliffe (1911-1959).
Provenance
Accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to the National Trust for display at Basildon Park, 2010.
Credit line
Basildon Park, The Iliffe Collection (accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to the National Trust in 2010)
Makers and roles
Cecil Stuart Jameson (Christchurch 1884 - 1973), artist