Jane Georgiana Fauquier, Lady Vernon (1748-1823)
John Hoppner, RA (London 1758 – London 1810)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1785 - 1800
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
2375 x 1461 mm (93 1/2 x 57 1/2 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall (Children's Country House), Derbyshire
NT 653163
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Jane Georgiana Fauquier, Lady Vernon (1748-1823) by John Hoppner, RA (London 1758 – London 1810). A full-length portrait, of a woman standing, facing, head turned to the left, gazing to the left, her powdered hair tied with a pale-blue ribbon, and wearing a white muslin dress with yellow overdress and black lace shawl, pale blue waist ribbon tied with a bow, standing in a grove of trees, with a distant view of the sky to the left. The 2nd Lord Vernon's second wife, married in 1786. A fearsome character according to Horace Walpole.
Provenance
Sold by the 9th Lord Vernon at Christie's, 20 June 1919, lot 79, bought by White; Marquess Curzon sale, Christie's, 22 December 1927, lot 89, bought by Leggatt; recovered for the family by the 10th Lord Vernon, circa 1960; acquired from 10th Lord Vernon in lieu of death-duties after the death of Francis Lawrance William Venables-Vernon, 9th Lord Vernon (1889 -1963) and transferred by the Treasury to the National Trust in 1967.
Credit line
Sudbury Hall, The Vernon Collection (acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to the National Trust in 1967)
Makers and roles
John Hoppner, RA (London 1758 – London 1810), artist