Lady Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire (1757–1806) and Lady Elizabeth Christiana Hervey, later Duchess of Devonshire (Lady Elizabeth Foster) (1759-1824)
after Jean-Urbain Guérin (Strasbourg 1760/1 - Obernai 1836)
Category
Art / Miniatures
Date
Unknown
Materials
Watercolour on card
Measurements
8.6 x 6.3 cm
Order this imageCollection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 851918
Summary
Portrait miniature, Lady Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire (1757–1806) and Lady Elizabeth Christiana Hervey, later Duchess of Devonshire (Lady Elizabeth Foster) (1759-1824), after Jean-Urbain Guerin (Strasbourg 1760 – Obernai 1836). Oval. Three-quarter-length portraits of two young women, turned to the left, left profile wearing white dresses and blue-grey sashes, Lady Elizabeth holding a basket of flowers in her right hand. Paper label on the back 'From the miniature by Jean Guerin in the Wallace Collection, supposed to the Georgiana D of Devonshire and Lady Elizabeth Foster'.
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
after Jean-Urbain Guérin (Strasbourg 1760/1 - Obernai 1836), miniaturist