Catherine, Countess of Chesterfield

Description This portrait miniature of Lady Stanhope was done by the artist Nicholas Dixon. Dixon painted at the court of Charles II (1630-1685). Stanhope was the governess to Charles I's daughter, Mary, and was made Countess of Chesterfield in 1660.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
1/15/1964	Treatment	cleaned
5/05/1964	Treatment	other

Exhibitions

• Four Centuries of Miniature Painting from the Collections of the A. Jay Fink Foundation, Inc. and A.J. Fink, Personally. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore. 1958-1959.
• Small Northern European Portraits from The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. National Gallery of Art, Washington. 2000.

Provenance Acquired by A. Jay Fink; by bequest to A. Jay Fink Foundation, Inc., Baltimore, 1963; given to Walters Art Museum, 1963.

Inscriptions signature

Credit Gift of the A. Jay Fink Foundation, Inc., in memory of Abraham Jay Fink, 1963