Ellen Adderly, Viscountess Dillon of Costello-Gallin (1809-1896)
Filippo Agricola (Urbino 1776 - Rome 1857)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1840 - 1845
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
995 x 745 mm
Order this imageCollection
Basildon Park, Berkshire
NT 266427
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Ellen Adderly, Viscountess Dillon of Costello-Gallin (1809-1896) by Filippo Agricola (1776-1857), circa 1840. A three-quarter-length portrait of Ellen Adderly in a purple off the shoulder velvet dress with lace trim over a white chemise. She looks over her right shoulder at the viewer, while writing with a quill held in her right hand in a leather bound book supported in her left. She is set in an interior space, sitting on a simple wooden chair. Born on 23 November 1809 she was the the daughter of James Adderly (d. 1812) and god-daughter of Sir John Murray, 8th Bt, married Arthur Edmund Denis Dillon-Lee, 16th Viscount Dillon of Costello-Gallin, (1812-1892), son of Henry Augustus Dillon-Lee, 13th Viscount Dillon of Costello-Gallin and Henrietta Browne. Her two children were Harold Arthur Lee-Dillon, 17th Viscount Dillon of Costello-Gallin (1844-1932) and the Hon. Conrad Adderly Dillon (1845-1901).
Provenance
On loan from the Dillon Trustees
Credit line
Basildon Park, Dillon Trustees
Makers and roles
Filippo Agricola (Urbino 1776 - Rome 1857), publisher