Constance Louisa Ponsonby-Fane, Mrs William Robert Phelips (1856-1930)
Leon Sprinck (fl.1915-1919)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1915 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
902 x 698 mm (35 1/2 x 27 1/2 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Montacute House, Somerset
NT 597938
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Constance Louisa Ponsonby-Fane, Mrs William Robert Phelips (1856-1930) by Leon Sprinck (fl.1915-1919), signed and dated 1915. A portrait of a mature woman, half-length, seated, turned to right, head inclined to right and gazing at spectator her right arm resting on the arm-rest. Her grey hair is swept up at the sides with a centre parting. She wears a brown silk dress with an embroidered gauze shawl lined with pink silk. She has a watch or cameo on her right wrist, a small black necklet-ribbon fastened at the front with a jewel and a thin long gold chain with a crucifix and long dangling earrings. Coat of arms in top right corner. Companion portrait to NT 597937.
Provenance
On loan from the Phelips family since 1931; purchased with the aid of the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the V&A Museums and Galleries Commission Purchase Grant Fund in 1989.
Credit line
Montacute House, The Phelips Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: Signed and dated 1915 Recto: Small filt tablet affixed to bottom of frame, inscribed:
Makers and roles
Leon Sprinck (fl.1915-1919), publisher British (English) School, publisher
References
Montacute House, Somerset, 1976 [The National Trust; Dudley Dodd] 1976, "THE GROUND FLOOR CORRIDOR Portraits Constance Ponsonby-Fane, Mrs Phelips (1856-1931), unknown artist. Second wife of the above [William Robert Phelips (1846-1919)]. Loaned by Mr David Phelips." Montacute House, Somerset, 1991 [The National Trust; Malcolm Rogers] 1991, p.83 "THE GROUND FLOOR CORRIDOR (THE LOWER CLIFTON MAYBANMK CORRIDOR) PAINTINGS NORTH END Constance Ponsonby-Fane, Mrs William Robert Phelips (1856-1930) W.R.Phelips's second wife, whom he married in 1881. She was the daughter of Sir Spencer Ponsonby-Fane of nearly Brympton D'Evercy. Leon Sprinck, signed and dated 1915." Montacute House, Somerset, 1997 [The National Trust; Malcolm Rogers] 1991, revised 1997 , p.83 "THE GROUND FLOOR CORRIDOR (THE LOWER CLIFTON MAYBANMK CORRIDOR) PAINTINGS NORTH END Constance Ponsonby-Fane, Mrs William Robert Phelips (1856-1930) W.R.Phelips's second wife, whom he married in 1881. She was the daughter of Sir Spencer Ponsonby-Fane of nearly Brympton D'Evercy. Leon Sprinck, signed and dated 1915."