[Maria, Countess Waldegrave] [art original]

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Title: [Maria, Countess Waldegrave] [art original]
Alternative Title: Maria Walpole as the widow of 2nd Earl Waldegrave
Creator: Hone, Nathaniel, 1718-1784, artist
Contributor: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, artist.
Forster, Eleanor, 1890-1971, former owner.
Published / Created: [approximately 1765]
Publication Place: England
Description: Maria Walpole (1736-1807) was the daughter of Sir Edward Walpole (1706-1784) and his common-law wife Dorothy Clement (1715-1739). She married first, in 1759, James Waldegrave (1714-1763), Earl Waldegrave, and second, in 1766, Prince William Henry Hanover (1743-1805), Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh.
Maria, Countess Waldegrave, dressed in mauve, when the widow of James Waldegrave, Earl Waldegrave. Hone painted his miniature after the Sir Joshua Reynolds portrait in the Euston Hall Collection, Suffolk (Mannings, D. Sir Joshua Reynolds, number 1900).
Signed by the artist with monogram, lower right.
Date of the minature is based on the Reynolds portrait.
Portrait set in gilt metal locket with burnished glass bezel and ridged case edge. The initials MW are engraved on the verso beneath a coronet.
For further provenance information, see the custodial history note in the Guide to the Sir Edward Walpole and Dorothy Clement Family Papers (LWL MSS 37).
Provenance: Purchased by W. S. Lewis from Doris Haydock, 1959.
Extent: 1 painting : 3.8 x 4 cm
Language: English

Genre: Miniatures (Paintings)
Paintings British 18th century
Portraits British 18th century
Watercolors British 18th century
Material: watercolor on ivory ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Maria, Duchess of Gloucester, 1736-1807,
Subject (Topic): Women
Subjects: Maria, Duchess of Gloucester, 1736-1807
Women
British > 18th century

Access: Public
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Citation: Nathaniel Hone, Maria, Countess Waldegrave. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.