Jane Whittaker, Lady Crewe (1799-1881)
Ramsay Richard Reinagle, RA (London 1775 – Chelsea 1862)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1828 - 1829 (exh at RA)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1270 x 1020 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 290440
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Jane Whittaker, Lady Crewe (1799-1881) by Ramsay Richard Reinagle (London 1775 – Chelsea 1862), 1828/29. A three-quarter-length portrait, seated, wearing a white dress with full sleeves. A bouquet is on a table to her left. She has dark hair worn in ringlets. Jane Whittaker, daughter of Thomas Whittaker, a Norfolk parson, married Sir George Crewe in 1819. This portrait, like CAL/P/330 of her husband was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1829. Again, Isabel Harpur Crewe did not approve; 'a bad likeness and wanting in the refinement which was most conspicuous in her'.
Provenance
Acquired with Calke Abbey's contents, with - 1981) to the National Trust with the aid of a grant provided by the National Heritage Memorial Fund, thanks to a special allocation of money from the Government and transferred in lieu of tax on the estate of Charles Jenney Harpur-Crewe (1917 the house that was given by Henry Jenney Harpur-Crewe (1921- 1991), in 1984
Credit line
Calke Abbey, The Harpur Crewe Collection (acquired by the National Trust with the help of the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund in 1984)
Makers and roles
Ramsay Richard Reinagle, RA (London 1775 – Chelsea 1862), artist