Self Portrait
Mary Dowling, Mrs William Penny
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1860
Materials
Watercolour on card
Measurements
400 x 335 mm
Place of origin
Cheltenham
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 882252
Summary
Watercolour on card, Self Portrait by Mary Dowling, Mrs William Penny (1818-1910). Three quarter length portrait of a dark haired woman wearing a blue dress standing at an easel,
Provenance
from the bequest of Miss Kathleen Penny, Croydon, 2004, who was daughter of Arthur Pawle Penny, son of Mary who painted the portrait and nephew of Elizabeth Holmes, her sister. Elizabeth married Edward Holmes who was the grandson of the Rev. Edward Holmes who married Miss Dickinson, c.1784, daughter of the Rev. Timothy Dickinson, brother of Caleb, grandfather of Mary Dickinson who married Thomas Charles, 2nd Lord Robartes and 6th Viscount Clifden. See family tree on file.
Makers and roles
Mary Dowling, Mrs William Penny, artist