Rose-Henriette Peronne de Sercey, Baroness de Finguerlin (b. 1773)
manner of Baron François Gérard (Rome 1770 – Paris 1837)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1815 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
740 x 580 mm
Place of origin
France
Order this imageCollection
Sizergh Castle, Cumbria
NT 998441
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Rose-Henriette Peronne de Sercey, Baroness de Finguerlin (b 1773), French School, manner of Baron François Gérard (Rome 1770 – Paris 1837), signed bottom left: F.V. Douine (?)/1815. A half-length portrait, wearing a mustard-coloured robe and red cloak. A Creole orphan niece of the notorious Mme de Genlis, governess to Philippe Egalité’s children, and mother of some of them, Henriette was taken by her on the outbreak of the French Revolution to England and then to Hamburg, where she married the banker Johann Conrad Matthiessen in 1796.Their daughter Emma Conradine (1801–31) was married to Charles Standish (1790–1863), the eldest son of Thomas Strickland Standish, in 1822. In 1801 Henriette divorced Matthiessen and married the Swiss Baron Henri de Finguerlin de Bischinsen.Their daughter, Gasparine, was married to Charles’s younger brother,Thomas Strickland of Sizergh (1792 - 1835).
Provenance
Given by Henry Hornyold Strickland (1890 – 1975) with Sizergh Castle and its estates in 1950
Makers and roles
manner of Baron François Gérard (Rome 1770 – Paris 1837), artist previously catalogued as attributed to French School, artist