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Joshua Reynolds: "Portrait Of Mary, Countess of Courtown (D. 1810), half-length, Wearing a Pink Dress, Black lace shawl, and holding a spray of carnations"   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Joshua Reynolds  (1723–1792)  wikidata:Q194402 s:en:Author:Joshua Reynolds q:en:Joshua Reynolds
 
Joshua Reynolds
Description British painter, writer, art collector and visual artist
Date of birth/death 16 July 1723 Edit this at Wikidata 23 February 1792 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Plympton Edit this at Wikidata London Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q194402
Title
"Portrait Of Mary, Countess of Courtown (D. 1810), half-length, Wearing a Pink Dress, Black lace shawl, and holding a spray of carnations"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
Français : Mary Stopford (morte en 1810), née Powys, comtesse de Courtown, portrait de Joshua Reynolds
English: Mary Stopford (d 1810), née Powys, Countess of Courtown, half-length, wearing a pink dress, black lace shawl, and holding a spray of carnations.

inscribed on the stretcher: This / portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds of the Countess of Courtown Lady of the Bed Chamber / to Queen Charlotte, to be an heirloom.

The sitter was the daughter of Richard Powis (or Powys), of Hintlesham Hall, Suffolk, and his wife, Lady Mary Brudenell, daughter of George Brudenell, 3rd Earl of Cardigan (1685–1732). Reynolds' notebooks relate that Mary Powis first sat to him with her sister Elizabeth, in 1759, and it is probable that the present portrait dates to around this same time; Reynolds depicted Mary again in 1762, wearing an elaborately ruched dress and a feather boa.1 Mary married James Viscount Stopford, who later became 2nd Earl of Courtown in 1770, that same year.

Mary Lady Courtown was appointed Lady-in-Waiting to Queen Charlotte in 1788. Fanny Burney, later known as Madame d'Arblay (1752–1840) recorded the appointment in her diary, remarking that ‘Lady Courtown [...] is constantly cheerful and obliging, and seems invariably in good humour and good spirits’ (18 August 1788).
Date circa 1759
date QS:P571,+1759-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 91.8 cm (36.1 in); width: 72 cm (28.3 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,91.8U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,72U174728
Object history

Provenance:

  • By descent in the family of the sitter to Thomas Powys, 1st Baron Lilford (1743–1800);
  • Private collection, USA;
  • Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 8 June 2006, lot 44.
  • Auction sale, London, Sotheby's, 29 July 2020, lot 156
Inscriptions inscribed on the stretcher: This / portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds of the Countess of Courtown Lady of the Bed Chamber / to Queen Charlotte, to be an heirloom.
Source/Photographer https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/old-masters-including-old-master-paintings-drawings-and-british-works-on-paper/sir-joshua-reynolds-p-r-a-portrait-of-mary

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Mary Stopford (d 1810), née Powys, Countess of Courtown, portrait by Joshua Reynolds

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