Captain Marmion Edward Ferrers in the uniform of the Warwickshire Militia
Rebecca Dulcibella Orpen (1829/30 - 1923)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1867
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
737 x 610 mm (29 x 24 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire
NT 343186
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Captain Marmion Edward Ferrers in the Uniform of the Warwickshire Militia by Rebecca Dulcibella Ferrers Orpen, later Mrs Edward Dering (1830 – 1923), inscribed and signed, circa 1867. A half-length portrait, seated at a table in front of the chimney-piece in the Great Hall at Baddesley Clinton. He wears the uniform of an officer of the Warwickshire Militia, his sword in his right hand, his left elbow resting on the table, his hand held to his chin. Son of Edward Ferrers (1790-1830) and Lady Harriet Townshend (d.1845) the daughter of George Townshend, 16th Baron Ferrers of Chartley, 2nd Marquess Townshend and Earl of Leicester of Tamworth Castle; married Rebecca Dulcibella Orpen (1830-1923) as her first husband. They were joined at Baddesley Clinton by Edward Heneage Dering (1826-1892) and his wife Georgiana, Lady Chatterton (1806-1876) the widow of Sir William Chatterton (1794-1855), and the life of the four friends, known to each other as 'The Quartet' and their obsessive interest in the history of the house, is attested by the numerous paintings of them which were done by Dulcibella. After Marmion Edward's death, in 1885 she married Edward Dering, by then a widower.
Credit line
Baddesley Clinton, The Ferrers Collection (acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to the National Trust in 1980)
Makers and roles
Rebecca Dulcibella Orpen (1829/30 - 1923), artist