Lady Jane Grey, Lady Turnbull (1899-1991)
Margaret Lindsay Williams (Cardiff 1888 - Barry 1960)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1956
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
965 x 711 mm (38 x 28 in)
Order this imageCollection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 932328
Caption
Lady Jane Turnbull was the daughter of William (Grey), 9th Earl of Stamford (1850–1910) and Penelope Theobald (1865–1959). She married the Reverend Peveril Turnbull (d.1972) the vicar of Penshurst, Kent. Lady Jane was artistically inclined, and there are a number of her drawings at Dunham Massey. Tradition relates that her mother requested the artist to paint her daughter (then aged 57) without either grey hair or wrinkles – and indeed there is neither one nor the other!
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Lady Jane Grey, Lady Turnbull (1899-1991) by Margaret Lindsay Williams (Cardiff fl.1907 - d.1960), 1956. A three-quarter-length portrait of the daughter of the 9th Earl of Stamford as a middle-aged woman seated in a green upholstered chair, turned to left, gazing to the left, wearing a plum-coloured dress pinned at the breast with a flower made of diamonds, with a fur stole draped over her right shoulder and her left arm, she has short curled brown hair, and wears a single strand pearl necklace and a watch on her right wrist. Her hands are clasped on her lap. Landscape setting of a formal garden.
Makers and roles
Margaret Lindsay Williams (Cardiff 1888 - Barry 1960), artist