Lady Charlotte Wyndham, Mrs John King (1795-1870)
John Edward Carew (c.1785 - 1868)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1831 - 1834
Materials
Marble
Measurements
670 x 485 x 255 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486412
Summary
Marble, Lady Charlotte Wyndham, Mrs John King (1795-1870) by John Edward Carew (Wexford 1785 – London 1868), 1831/34. A marble portrait bust of the 3rd Earl of Egremont's daughter, who married John James King of Loxwood or Coates Castle, Sussex in 1823, with head slightly turned to one side, hair braided with a ringlet falling over each shoulder from behind, bust draped.
Provenance
Commissioned by the 3rd Earl of Egremont, 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.
Marks and inscriptions
108 (painted on front of socle)
Makers and roles
John Edward Carew (c.1785 - 1868), sculptor