Sir George Crewe, 8th Bt. (1795 – 1844)
after Ramsay Richard Reinagle, RA (London 1775 – Chelsea 1862)
Category
Art / Miniatures
Date
circa 1819
Materials
Watercolour on ivory, gilt metal, glass
Measurements
50 x 45 mm; 190 mm (Diameter)
Order this imageCollection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 290333
Summary
Portrait miniature, watercolour on ivory, Sir George Crewe, 8th Bt. (1795 – 1844) after Ramsay Richard Reinagle (London 1775 – Chelsea 1862). c.1819. Oval. Head-and-shoulders portrait of a young man The young man has dark hair and a short dark beard. He wears a black jacket and black cravat with a blue and gold circlet brooch (NT 288868), a dark background. The portrait miniature is mounted in a frame and set as a clasp to a bracelet formed from the plaited hair of Jane Whitaker, Lady Crewe (1799-1880).
Full description
This portrait miniature set on a hair bracelet was bequeathed by Isabel Jane Crewe (1830-1909) to her nephew, Sir Vauncey Harpur Crewe, 10th Baronet (1846-1924) as ‘the miniature portrait of my father Sir George Crewe Baronet and set as a clasp to a bracelet made of my mothers [Jane Whitaker, Lady Crewe’s] hair’ (Will of Isabel Jane Crewe of 15 Wetherby Gardens, South Kensington, London, proved 8 June 1909).
Provenance
Portrait miniature of Sir George Crewe, 8th Bt. (1795-1844) set on a bracelet formed from the hair of his wife, Jane Whitaker, Lady Crewe (1799-1880). Bequeathed by their daughter, Isabel Jane Crewe (1830-1909) to her nephew, Sir Vauncey Harpur Crewe, 10th Baronet (1846-1924) as ‘the miniature portrait of my father Sir George Crewe Baronet and set as a clasp to a bracelet made of my mothers hair’. Thence by descent to Henry Harpur-Crewe (1921-91) and transferred with Calke Abbey and its contents to the National Trust by the Treasury in lieu of Capital Transfer Tax in 1985 with an endowment provided by the National Heritage Memorial Fund.
Makers and roles
after Ramsay Richard Reinagle, RA (London 1775 – Chelsea 1862), artist