Lady Henrietta Cavendish-Bentinck, Countess of Stamford (1737-1827)
attributed to Johann Zoffany, RA (Frankfurt am Main 1733 - Kew 1810)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1763
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
990 x 736 mm (37 x 29 in)
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Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 932295
Caption
Henrietta Cavendish-Bentinck (1737-1827) was the daughter of the 2nd Duke of Portland, who, in 1763, married the 5th Earl of Stamford. She bore him no fewer than ten children.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Lady Henrietta Cavendish-Bentinck, Countess of Stamford (1737-1827) attributed to Johann Zoffany, RA (Frankfurt am Main 1733 - Kew 1810), circa 1763. A three-quarter-length portrait of a young woman, seated on a green upholstered chair, at a circular wooden table, turned to the right, gazing at the spectator, her left arm is resting on a red/pink muff on the table, holding a sprig of flowers in her left hand. She is wearing a white satin dress and a black lace shawl with a pink bow at the elbow, also a small pink ruff. Her dark hair is dressed high and she had a pendant pearl earring. Background drapes. A daughter of the Duke of Portland, she married in 1763 Lord Grey of Groby, who in 1768 succeeded his father as 5th Earl of Stamford.
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust with the house, estate and all the contents of Dunham Massey by Roger Grey, 10th Earl of Stamford (1896 - 1976)
Credit line
Dunham Massey, The Stamford Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
attributed to Johann Zoffany, RA (Frankfurt am Main 1733 - Kew 1810), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Benjamin West (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 1738 - London 1820), artist