John Hoppner, R.A. (London 1758-1810)

Portrait of Mary Anne Nugent-Temple-Grenville, Lady Arundell of Wardour (1787-1845), three-quarter-length, in a mustard dress, holding a portfolio and pen, leaning against a tree in a landscape

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John Hoppner, R.A. (London 1758-1810)
Portrait of Mary Anne Nugent-Temple-Grenville, Lady Arundell of Wardour (1787-1845), three-quarter-length, in a mustard dress, holding a portfolio and pen, leaning against a tree in a landscape
oil on canvas
50¼ x 39.7/8 in. (127.6 x 101.3 cm.)

Provenance

By descent in the sitter's family at Stowe, Buckinghamshire, to Richard Plantagenet Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1797-1861); Christie's, on the premises, 14 September 1848, lot 349 (26 Gns. to Mr. Golding on behalf of the following).
Lady Doughty, Tichborne Park; Robinson and Fisher, London, 29 May 1902. Solomon Barnato Joel, 2 Great Stanhope Street, London; Christie's, London, 31 May 1935, lot 10 (1,300 Gns. to Pawsy & Payne).
The Hon. Mrs. Dirkse van Schalkwyk; Christie's, London, 25 November 1977, lot 102.

Literature

A Description of the House and Gardens at Stowe, 1838, p. 49, no. 125.
W. McKay and W. Roberts, John Hoppner, R.A., London and New York, 1914, p. 108.

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Lot Essay

The sitter was the only daughter of George Temple-Nugent-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham (1753-1813) and his wife, Mary Nugent, daughter of the 1st Viscount Clare. She converted to Catholicism in 1810 and married James Everard Arundell, 10th Baron Arundell of Wardour (1785-1834) on 26 February 1811. At that time a marriage in England was only considered legal when celebrated by a Protestant clergyman, so their wedding ceremony performed at Stowe, her family seat, had to be repeated the next day in London. Arundell served in a volunteer regiment during the Napoleonic Wars and became an officer in the Wiltshire Yeomanry. He was a scholar and an antiquarian, and contributed several chapters to Sir Richard Colt Hoare's History of Wiltshire. Arundell was admitted to the House of Lords with the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829, and subsequently voted against the Great Reform Act, the only Catholic peer to do so.

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