Lady Emily (Amelia) Mary Lamb, Countess Cowper, later Viscountess Palmerston (1787-1869)
John Lucas (London 1807 – St John’s Wood 1874)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1833 - 1839
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1450 x 1120 mm
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485087
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Lady Emily (Amelia) Mary Lamb, Countess Cowper, later Viscountess Palmerston (1787-1869) by John Lucas (London 1807 – St John’s Wood 1874), 1833/39. A three-quarter-length portrait, of a seated young woman, turned slightly to the right, and looking to the left, her left hand holding her pearl necklace. She has blue ribbons in her hair and is wearing a brown-plum red dress. The sitter was eldest daughter of Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne, married firstly in 1805 Peter Leopold Cowper, 5th Earl Cowper (1778-1837) and secondly in 1839 Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, KG, GCB, MP (1784-1865) who was Prime Minister from 17855-8 and 1859-63.
Provenance
In the collection of the 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837) by 1835. By descent to the current Lord Egremont. On loan from the Egremont Private Collection
Credit line
Petworth House, The Egremont Collection
Makers and roles
John Lucas (London 1807 – St John’s Wood 1874), artist