Sarah Jodrell, Mrs Robert Child (c.1740 - 1793)
George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734 – Kendal 1802)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1781
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
749 x 622 mm (29 1/2 x 24 1/2 in)
Place of origin
England
Collection
Osterley Park and House, London
NT 773371
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Sarah Jodrell, Mrs Robert Child (c.1740 - 1793) by George Romney (1734-1802), 1781. A half-length portrait of the daughter of Gilbert Jodrell who married Robert Child in 1763, the same year he inherited Osterley on the death of his brother Francis. She is seated, in profile, wearing a white dress, head scarf and a black wrap. Pair to NT 773370. The portrait was executed in 1781 at a cost of 20 guineas, the year before her first husband died. In 1791 she married Francis, 3rd Baron Ducie. The frame was supplied by Mr Peck at a cost of £8.4.6d. The full-length portrait of the sitter is in a private collection in America and another half-length portrait in a private collection in Northumberland.
Provenance
Recorded at Osterley Park in 1915; on loan from the Earldom of Jersey Trust
Credit line
Osterley Park, The Jersey Collection
Makers and roles
George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734 – Kendal 1802), artist
References
Ward and Roberts 1904 Thomas Humphry Ward and W.Roberts, Romney: A biographical critical essay with a catalogue raisonné of his works, London and New York, 2 vols., 1904 , Vol. II, p. 29