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Circle of Charles Jervas (Dublin c. 1675-1739 London)
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Circle of Charles Jervas (Dublin c. 1675-1739 London)

Portrait of a lady traditionally identified as Katherine Douglas, née Hyde, Duchess of Queensberry (1701-1777), bust-length, in a blue dress and wrap, a book in her right hand, in a feigned oval

Fermé23 April 2008

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Circle of Charles Jervas (Dublin c. 1675-1739 London)
Portrait of a lady traditionally identified as Katherine Douglas, née Hyde, Duchess of Queensberry (1701-1777), bust-length, in a blue dress and wrap, a book in her right hand, in a feigned oval
oil on canvas
14 x 12 in. (35.6 x 30.5 cm.)
with inscription 'Lady Katherine Hyde, Duchess of Queensbury, and 2d. Daughter to Henry Earl of Clarendon' (on an old handwritten label attached to the stretcher)

Note du spécialiste

The poet Matthew Prior (1664-1721) composed his well-known poem The Female Phaeton: upon Lady Kitty Hyde's First Appearing in Publick and in 1720 Katherine married her second cousin Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry and 2nd Duke of Dover (1698-1778). Guests at their London residence, Queensberry House, included Handel, Pope, Prior, the architect William Kent and the playwright John Gay. Katherine was most famously painted by Charles Jervas, dressed as a milk-maid (National Portrait Gallery, London). She died in 1777 due to an illness caused by a 'surfeit of cherries', according to Horace Walpole.