Lady Adelaide Georgiana Fitzclarence (1821-1883)
John Lucas (London 1807 – St John’s Wood 1874)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1840 - 1874
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
560 x 460 mm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486226
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Lady Adelaide Georgiana Fitzclarence (1821-1883) by John Lucas (London 1807 – St John’s Wood 1874). A head-and- shoulders portrait, facing three-quarters right with black hair, deep brown eyes and wearing a magenta dress.
Provenance
In the collection of the 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837) by 1835. Thence by descent, until the death in 1952 of the 3rd Lord Leconfield, who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-72) arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by H.M.Treasury.
Credit line
Petworth House, The Egremont Collection (acquired in lieu of tax by HM Treasury in 1956 and subsequently transferred to the National Trust)
Makers and roles
John Lucas (London 1807 – St John’s Wood 1874), artist