Watercolour
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1800 - 1830
Materials
Paper, Wood
Measurements
140 x 105 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Gunby Hall Estate, Lincolnshire
NT 636758
Summary
One of a pair of English early 19th century small watercolour portraits in plain gilt frames. a) Algernon Massingberd,eldest son of Peregrine Langton-Massingberd, facing looking right, with black coat and stock and white collar. Brown ground. b) Mary Massingberd, daughter of Peregrine Langton-Massingberd, facing in a blue dress with a single band necklace of red beads. Hair in ringlets. On the back of this portrait the lines to Mimosa(Mary) by Tennyson beginning 'Woman of noble form and noble mind Withsoever thro' the wilderness/Tho bearest from the threshold of thy friends/The sacred sorrows of as pure a heart/As e'er beat time to Nature take with thee/Our warmest wishes, silent Guardians.'
Provenance
1944, gifted to the National Trust by Field Marshal Sir Archibald and Lady Montgomery Massingberd.