Lady Lucy Elizabeth Georgiana Bridgeman, Lady Wolryche-Whitmore (1792-1840)
Lorenzo Bartolini (Vernio, Tuscany 1777 – Florence 1850)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
circa 1822
Materials
Marble
Measurements
730 mm (Height)
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Dudmaston, Shropshire
NT 814342
Summary
White marble sculpture supported on turned socle, Lady Lucy Elizabeth Georgiana Bridgeman, Lady Wolryche-Whitmore (1792-1840), British (English) School, circa 1822. A portrait bust of Lady Lucy, wife of William Wolryche-Whitmore (1787-1858), head turned slightly to left. She is wearing fashionable, high-waisted period dress with wide neck and gathered under chest with a button at each shoulder emerging from a wrap. Her hair is curled and ringleted. She was the daughter of Orlando, 1st Earl of Bradford (1762-1825) and the Hon. Lucy Byng, daughter of the 4th Viscount Torrington. Orlando was a crony of the Prince Regent and was the only witness to the Prince's marriage to Mrs Fitzherbert.
Provenance
Given by Rachel Katherine Hamilton Russell, Lady Labouchere (1908 – 1996) along with the Dudmaston estate in 1978
Credit line
Dudmaston, The Labouchere Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Lorenzo Bartolini (Vernio, Tuscany 1777 – Florence 1850), sculptor
References
Pye 2018 Tim Pye, ‘Songs in the Night: the life of Lady Lucy Whitmore in books and writing’, National Trust Historic Houses & Collections Annual, 2018, p.49-50