Ernesta Clementina Sandryk, Mrs Edmund William Elton
Italian School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1850
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
405 x 305 mm (16 x 12 in)
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Clevedon Court, North Somerset
NT 624165
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Ernesta Clementina Sandryk, Mrs Edmund William Elton by Italian School, circa 1850. A portrait of Ernesta Elton as a young woman, pensive look, facing, looking down and holding a single sprig of flowers in her left hand which is crossed over her right. She has dark brown hair, with a centre parting which is looped over her ears and drawn back. She wears a black short jacket with long sleeves over a dark blue silk skirt. A dark red silk shawl is draped over her right arm and is held on her left hip with her right hand. There is a mandolin on the left, in front of a large yellow drape, a distant landscape/sea view to the right, with a cloudy sky. She married Edmund William Elton (1822-1859) as his second wife in Livorno on May 8th 1850. Edmund William was the son of Sir Charles Abraham Elton 6th Bt (1778-1853) and Sarah Smith (1782-1830).
Provenance
Purchased from Lady Margaret Ann Elton (1915 – 1995), 1981 with the help of grants from the V&A Purchase Fund and the NHMF
Makers and roles
Italian School, artist previously catalogued as attributed to Edmund William Elton (1822 - 1859), artist
References
Clevedon Court [The National Trust] revised 1972, 1974, 1977, 1979, p.29: "The State Room... Close by, his [Edward Villiers Rippingille's] portrait of Edmund William, with flowing beard and broad-brimmed hat, hangs above Edmund William's own portrait of his young second wife, Clementina."