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Portrait of Lady Clinton (?)
(18th and 19th Centuries )
A young lady wearing an embroidered mantle and a white satin dress with square décolletage is portrayed seated.
Should the traditional identification of the subject as Lady Clinton (1795-1875) be correct, she would have been about fourteen years old when this style of dress was in fashion. The identification is based on a newspaper clipping, attached to the reverse of the panel bearing the obituary of the Dowager Lady Clinton, second wife of Sir Horace Seymour, who served as "lady of the bed-chamber" to Queen Adelaide for several years prior to 1837.
Provenance
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Henry Walters, Baltimore, between 1893 and 1909, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Conservation
| Date | Description | Narrative |
|---|---|---|
| 12/1/1944 | Treatment | coated; inpainted; varnish removed or reduced |
Geographies
United Kingdom (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 11 13/16 x W: 9 1/2 in. (30 x 24.2 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, between 1893 and 1909
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
37.176