Lady Elizabeth Caroline Mary Crichton, later Lady Wharncliffe (1779-1856) and the Hon. Elizabeth Catherine Caroline Hervey, later Mrs Charles Rose Ellis (1780-1803), as children
Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA (Bristol 1769 – London 1830)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
c. 1783
Materials
Pastel on paper
Measurements
430 x 390 mm
Order this imageCollection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 851839
Summary
Pastel on paper, Lady Elizabeth Caroline Mary Crichton, later Lady Wharncliffe (1779-1856) and the Hon. Elizabeth Catherine Caroline Hervey, later Mrs Charles Rose Ellis (1780-1803), as children, by Sir Thomas Lawrence, PRA (Bristol 1769 – London 1830), c. 1783. An oval portrait of two children in white dresses, embracing, seated beneath a tree, one with brown hair wearing a white pink sash (left), the other blonde wearing a blue sash and bonnet (right). The pastel is reproduced in Caroline Grosvenor, The first Lady Wharncliffe and her family (1779-1856), pp. 256-7, as 'Lady Caroline Creighton and Eliza Hervey / Painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence P.R.A., then aged fourteen. In the possession of Mrs. Archibald Stuart Wortley.' Hon. Jane Lawley (1820-1900) (Mrs Archibald Stuart Wortley) was daughter-in-law to Elizabeth Crichton (later Lady Wharncliffe).
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.
Makers and roles
Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA (Bristol 1769 – London 1830), artist previously catalogued as attributed to John Russell (Guildford 1745 – Hull 1806), artist
References
Jeffares 2006 Neil Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, London 2006, Neil Jeffares, "Sir Thomas Lawrence", Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, London, 2006; online edition [http://www.pastellists.com/Articles/LAWRENCE.pdf], p. 12, J.466.3571 (reproduced) Caroline Grosvenor, The first Lady Wharncliffe and her family (1779-1856), London 1927, reproduced, plate between pp. 256-7