Mary Ann Viney-Evans, 1st Viscountess Beaconsfield (1792-1872) as a Young Woman
Alfred Edward Chalon, RA (Geneva 1780 - Kensington 1860)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1840
Materials
Watercolour heightened with white on paper
Measurements
298 x 222 mm (11 3/4 x 8 3/4 in )
Order this imageCollection
Hughenden, Buckinghamshire
NT 428988
Summary
Watercolour heightened with white on paper, Mary Ann Viney-Evans, 1st Viscountess Beaconsfield (1792-1872) as a Young Woman by Alfred Edward Chalon, RA (Geneva 1780 – Kensington 1860), signed and dated in gold 'A. E. Chalon, R.A.etc.1840.' A three-quarter-length portrait of a young woman, seated, turned to the right, gazing at the spectator, in a white dress with red ribbons and black fur-trimmed cape. Glazed. Part of pair (see NT/HUG/P/32).
Provenance
Not listed by Disraeli in June 1879. Perhaps this portrait was kept in London. The engraving after it was hung in the 'Family Room' (referred to as the 'Yellow State Room' in the 1881 inventory). (Original (undecipherable) description: Curiously (in view of the portait of himslef as its pendant), not listed by Disraeli in June 1879 (did he perhaps keep it in London?), where it was represented instead by the engraving after it in what he called the 'Family Room - in which (there called the 'Yellow of State Room') it is to be formed in the 1881 inventory).
Marks and inscriptions
A. E. Chalon, R.A.etc.1840.
Makers and roles
Alfred Edward Chalon, RA (Geneva 1780 - Kensington 1860) , artist