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Laura May Elton (1811-1848) and Julia Elizabeth Elton (1807-1881)

Thomas Barker (Pontypool 1769 - Bath 1847)

Category

Art / Oil paintings

Date

1823 (signed and dated)

Materials

Oil on canvas

Measurements

406 x 356 mm (16 x 14 in)

Place of origin

Bath

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Collection

Clevedon Court, North Somerset

NT 624167

Summary

Oil painting on canvas, Laura May Elton (1811-1848) and Julia Elizabeth Elton (1807-1881) by Thomas Barker of Bath (1769-1847), signed and dated 1823. Portraits of two young girls, two daughters, the eldest and the youngest, of Sir Charles Abraham Elton 6th Bt (1778-1853) and Sarah Smith (1782-1830), three-quarter-lengths, the younger on the left facing, head slightly inclined, the other on the right, turned to the left, head facing, both gazing at the spectator. The younger, whose right hand rests on a stone ledge on the left, has pale brown hair and wears a straw bonnet with white silk ribbons. She has on a high-waisted, Empire-line dress with a blue silk top and white skirt, her sister on the right has short curled brown hair, also wears an Empire-line dress in white, with a dark red shawl draped on her right shoulder and looped over the left arm. Her straw bonnet lies on a tree-stump on the right. The tree behind it forms part of an arch with dark foliage on the right, with a distant view of grey sky.

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

Thomas Barker (Pontypool 1769 - Bath 1847), artist

References

Clevedon Court [The National Trust] revised 1972, 1974, 1977, 1979, p.28: "The State Room...Grouped round 'The Travellers' Breakfast', the Elton children and their mother re-appear in a series of elegant paintings executed by Thomas Barker, of Bath, in 1823. To the right, Julia Elizabeth has her arm protectively round Laura Mary."

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