Eliza Horatia Frederica Seymour, Vicountess Clifden, later Lady Stirling (1833-1896)
Claude Jacquand (Lyon 1804 – Paris 1878)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1852 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1397 x 1041 mm (55 x 41 in)
Order this imageCollection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 851736
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Eliza Horatia Frederica Seymour, Vicountess Clifden, later Lady Stirling (1833-1896) by Claude Jacquand (Lyon 1803 – Paris 1878), signed and dated: Claudius Jacquand 1852. A three-quarter-length portrait of a young woman, turned to the left in profile to left, gazing to the left, standing on stone balcony, wearing grey and white satin over-gown with flimsy white blouse beneath, bangles on right wrist and holding bunch of wild flowers in her right hand. She has shortish black hair, parted in centre, smooth ending in curls.Deep brown/red curtain draped on left, dark classical landscape in background. The sitter was the daughter of Frederick Charles William Seymour, youngest son of Vice-Admiral Lord Hugh Seymour (1759-1801) (and grandson of Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquis of Hertford), and Lady Augusta Elizabeth Wilhemina Hervey (1798-1880), daughter of Frederick William Hervey, 1st Marquess of Bristol (1769-1859) whom he had married on 18 September 1832 as his second wife. She was Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria, and married, 23rd September, 1861, Henry Agar Ellis, 2nd Viscount Clifden, who died in 1866. She remarried, 12 October, 1875, Colonel Sir Walter G. Stirling, Bt, and died 23 April 1896.
Provenance
Part of the Bristol Collection. Acquired by the National Trust in 1956 under the auspices of the National Land Fund, later the National Heritage Memorial Fund.
Credit line
Ickworth, The Bristol Collection (acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to The National Trust in 1956)
Makers and roles
Claude Jacquand (Lyon 1804 – Paris 1878), artist
References
Farrer 1908 Edmund Farrer, Portraits in Suffolk Houses (West), 1908