Mary Ann Sophia Chichester, Mrs Thomas Fitzherbert (1791-1848)
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1830
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
308 x 254 mm (12 ⅛ x 10 in)
Order this imageCollection
Arlington Court, Devon
NT 987422
Summary
Oil painting on panel, Mary Ann Sophia Chichester, Mrs Thomas Fitzherbert, British (English) School, circa 1830. A three-quarter-length portrait. She stands with her right elbow resting on a stone plinth, her hands joined and her head turned towards the right. She wears a slate blue dress with capped sleeves. A red and gold patterned shawl hangs from her left arm and drapes the plinth to the left. The plinth is decorated with an allegorical relief depicting a seated woman à l’antique, holding a stick or arrow. Mary Ann Sophia Chichester, was the daughter of Colonel John Palmer Chichester (1769–1823) by his first wife, was married in 1809 to Thomas Fitzherbert of Norbury and Swynnerton (1789–1857), the son of Basil Fitzberbert and Elizabeth Heneage. He was High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1831. They had two children: Charles Fitzherbert, a cornet in the 10th Light Dragoons (1810–1834), who married Mary Gibbons in 1832, but died two years later, having had a daughter, Thomasina Fitzherbert, who was born in 1833, married a man called Collins, but died without issue; and Thomas Lewis Fitzherbert (b.1811), who died as an infant.
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust by Miss Rosalie Chichester (1865 – 1949) in 1949
Credit line
Arlington Court, The Chichester Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: in pencil, on upright on back of frame: No.5 [5 struck through] 7
Makers and roles
British (English) School, artist