Arthur Pawle Penny (1856-1936)
Mary Dowling, Mrs William Penny
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1862
Materials
Watercolour on card
Measurements
550 x 415 mm
Place of origin
Cheltenham
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 882253
Summary
Waterclour on card, Arthur Pawle Penny (1856-1936) by Mary Dowling, Mrs William Penny (1818-1910). Full-length portrait of a blond haired blue-eyed boy aged 6 years turned to the right and gazing to the right, dressed in petticoats, lilac skirt with blue-red-blue braid near the edge, black velvet jacket with white lace collar and pink bow; black shoes. Seated on a grassy mound by a river bank under a tree with flowering plants round its trunk and classical urn behind; colvulvulus and another flowering plant in the foreground; distant view down river at the right.
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