Lady Katherine Isabella Manners, Countess Jermyn (1809-1848)
Sir Francis Grant PRA (Kilgraston 1803 - Melton Mowbray 1878)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1839 - 1904 (exh at RA)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
2362 x 1448 mm (93 x 57 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 851723
Caption
The sitter was the third daughter of the 5th Duke of Rutland and Lady Elizabeth Howard. In 1830 she married Frederick William, Earl Jermyn (1800-1864) to whom she bore four sons and five daughters, only three of whom survived infancy. After her death he succeeded as 2nd Marquess of Bristol in 1859 but remained a widower. Their eldest son, Frederick William John Hervey (1834-1907), became 3rd Marquess of Bristol.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Lady Katherine Isabella Manners, Countess Jermyn (1809-1848) by Sir Francis Grant PRA (Kilgraston 1803 - Melton Mowbray 1878), 1839. A full-length portrait of a woman, turned to the right, gazing at the spectator, standing in a landscape with distant horizon on the left, leaning with her left elbow on a stone pedestal, wearing a white dress with a pale mauve shawl round her shoulders, her black hair falling in ringlets on her shoulders. She was the third daughter of the 5th Duke of Rutland and Lady Elizabeth Howard, in 1830 she married Frederick William, Earl Jermyn (1800-1864), to whom she bore four sons and five daughters, only three of whom survived infancy. After her death, in childbirth, he succeeded as 2nd Marquess of Bristol, in 1859 but remained a widower. Her eldest son, Frederick William John Hervey (1834-1907), became 3rd Marquess of Bristol.
Provenance
Grant’s sitter-book records payments by the sitter’s father-in-law, the 1st Marquess of Bristol, of 200 guineas for this picture, and of the same for its pendant, in June 1839; thence by descent to the 4th Marquess of Bristol (1863-1951) and on his death valued for probate; accepted in lieu of tax by HM Treasury, and transferred to the National Trust in 1956
Credit line
Ickworth, The Bristol Collection (acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to The National Trust in 1956)
Makers and roles
Sir Francis Grant PRA (Kilgraston 1803 - Melton Mowbray 1878), artist
References
Farrer 1908 Edmund Farrer, Portraits in Suffolk Houses (West), 1908, no. 126