Margaret Smith, wife of Sr. Charles Bingham, an excellent paintress [art original].

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Title: Margaret Smith, wife of Sr. Charles Bingham, an excellent paintress [art original].
Alternative Title: Margaret Smith, wife of Sir Charles Bingham, an excellent paintress
Creator: Hamilton, Hugh Douglas, 1740-1808, artist
Contributor: Atkyns, Charlotte, 1758-1836.
Published / Created: [1774]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Portrait of Margaret Smith, wife of Sr. Charles Bingham ...
Description: Title from Horace Walpole's note on verso: Margaret Smith, wife of Sr. Charles Bingham, an excellent paintress, by Hamilton 1774.
Also with a poem on verso in Walpole's hand: Without a rival long on painting's throne, Urbino's modest artist sat alone. At last a British fair's unerring eyes, in five short moons contests the glorious prize, Raphael by genuis nurs'd by labour gain'd it, Bingham but saw perfection, and attain'd it. H.W."
Hugh Douglas Hamilton, English portrait and subject painter, 1739-1808.
No. 20 in the Catalogue of Framed Pictures in the Lewis Walpole Library.
Provenance: Owned by Horace Walpole and hung in the Blue bedchamber and sold at the Strawberry Hill sale, xi.110. Bought by Newman Smith, £1.1.0. Bernard Quaritch notes that the picture came from Gran Udern of Lawrence & co., Auctioneers, Crewkerne, Somerset to Mr. Toby Rodgers and then to Quaritch who sold it to W.S. Lewis, December 1974.
Extent: 1 drawing : 22.9 x 19 cm
Language: English

Genre: Pastels (Visual works)
Material: pastel ; and 9 x 7 3/8 inches.
Subject (Name): Lucan, Margaret Bingham, Countess of, -1814,
Subject (Topic): Artists
English
Subjects: Lucan, Margaret Bingham, Countess of, -1814
Artists > English
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes

Access: Public
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Citation: Hugh Douglas Hamilton, Margaret Smith, Wife of Sr. Charles Bingham. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.