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Portrait head of a young girl - Lady Catherine Pelham Clinton (1776-1804) (?)

Maker

(artist)
1745-1806

Title

Date of Production

(c.) 1785 - 1806

Medium

black and red chalk on laid paper, partially laid down (the right edge of the paper is lifted)

Dimensions

Height: 31 cm
Width: 20.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4308

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Provenance

most likely acquired directly from the artist by the sitter's father, Henry Fiennes Pelham Clinton, 9th Earl (and later 2nd Duke) of Lincoln and 2nd Duke of Newcastle (1720-1794); then by descent to Henry Pelham Archibald Douglas Pelham-Clinton, 7th Duke of Newcastle, Clumber House, Nottinghamshire( 1864-1928); sale of his estate, Sotheby's (London), 6 December 1937; purchased there by Beaux Arts Gallery (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 44

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Countermarks to below mark on backing sheet: centre: circle containing crown and laurel leaves surrounding “GR”; left centre edge: cursive monogram AR (matches Churchill 95 – monogram of Adriaan Rogge, dated 1785). Backing sheet: centre: Vryheyt mark – crowned circle containing a lion holding arrows and a staff, standing on a podium labelled “VRYHEYT”; around the border "PRO PATRIA EIUSQUE LIBERTATE" (see above Countermark – matches Churchill 95 – dated 1785).

Inscription: none.

Label: Detached from old mount, now kept separately from file, typewritten: "Beaux Arts Gallery 1-9 Bruton Place, W.1. / Lady Katherine Pelham Clinton (only daughter of Henry Fynes Pelham Clinton, Earl of Lincoln & Frances Seymour Conway, his wife) - born 6 April 1776 Married in Oct. 1800 William Viscount Folkestone. / Died 18 May 1804. / From Clumber 1937 / By J. Russell. R.A.".

Collector's mark: none.

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