Marie-Clodine Sivrac (nee Siraud) and her Son, Charles (1782-1865)
John Hoppner, RA (London 1758 – London 1810)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1796
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
876 x 800 mm (34 1/2 x 31 1/2 in)
Place of origin
England
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Upton House, Warwickshire
NT 446682
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Marie-Clodine Sivrac (nee Siraud) and her Son, Charles (1782-1865), by John Hoppner, RA, (London 1758 - London 1810), 1796. A double portrait, half-length, in a landscape, of a woman (left) wearing a pale turquoise dress with white muslin fichu, her powdered hair dressed with a blue ribbon, her arm around the shoulder of a boy, who stands beside her (right), wearing a maroon velvet coat and white lace collar. Marie-Clodine Sivrac, nee Siraud, was a society milliner resident with her family at Dover Street, London, until 1793 when the Sivrac family moved to France. Her husband was Gabriel Sivrac (died Paris 1818), a wealthy French merchant. The memoir of their son Charles, depicted in the portrait, is held at Cambridge University Library. Hoppner's portrait of Gabriel Sivrac, pendant to the double portrait of his wife and son, was sold by Christies in 2002.
Provenance
Commissioned by the husband of the sitter; thence by descent to Mrs Stephens of Belgrave Rectory, Leicester, niece of the sitter; in 1898, sold by her daughter to Agnew's, from whom it was acquired by G. Harland Peck; his sale, Christie's 25 June 1920, lot 83: bt. by [Charles] Davis on behalf of 1st Lord Bearsted; given with Upton House to the National Trust by Walter Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted (1882 – 1948) shortly before his death in 1948
Credit line
Upton House, The Bearsted Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: 19th century label on back of frame: La Marquise de Sivrac (née Bonar) and her son. Painted in 1796 (apparently transcribing a now fragmentary earlier label).
Makers and roles
John Hoppner, RA (London 1758 – London 1810), artist
References
Frankau 1903 Julia Frankau, ‘Mr. Harland Peck's Collection', Connoisseur, V, 1903, p.888, fig. p. 91 McKay and Roberts 1909 William McKay and William Roberts, John Hoppner, R.A., 2 vols., London 1909-14, p.232