Emma Sophia Edgcumbe, Countess Brownlow (1791-1872)
James Rannie Swinton (Kimmergehame 1816 - London 1888)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1846 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1580 x 1320 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 436209
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Emma Sophia Edgcumbe, Countess Brownlow (1791-1872) by James Rannie Swinton (Kimmergehame 1816 - London 1888), signed and dated: 1846. A three-quarter-length portrait, standing, head turned slightly to the left, gazing to the left,, her left arm leaning on a plinth, wearing a pink dress, black lace shawl. Lady Emma Sophia Edgcumbe, Countess Brownlow (1791-1872), eldest daughter of Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe (1764-1839) and Lady Sophia Hobart (1768-1806), third daughter of John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire (1723-1793); married in 1828, as his third wife, John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow (1779-1853), but bore him no children.She has spent her youth trailing around Europe with her uncle Lord Castlereagh, on his official visits as Foreigh Secretary. She held the office of Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Adelaide between 1830 and 1849 and formed a close relationship with her. The widowed Adelaide came to stay at Belton and a bedchamber was redecorated for the occasion and duly renamed the Queen's Bedroom. Lady Emma wrote Reminiscences of a Septuagenarian which was published in 1868.
Provenance
Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) from Edward John Peregrine Cust, 7th Baron Brownlow, C. St J. (b.1936) in 1984
Credit line
Belton House, The Brownlow Collection (acquired with the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund by the National Trust in 1984)
Makers and roles
James Rannie Swinton (Kimmergehame 1816 - London 1888), artist