Live Auction 5962Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
WILLIAM EGLEY (BRITISH, 1798-1870)
Lot 412

WILLIAM EGLEY (BRITISH, 1798-1870)

Closed28 November 2012

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GBP 1,250

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WILLIAM EGLEY (BRITISH, 1798-1870)
Lady Emma Pennant, née Brudenell, in black dress with white gauze sleeves, a coloured shawl draped over her right arm which rests on a stone wall, her left hand, with gold wedding band, holding the other end of her shawl, gold bracelet, fair hair dressed in ringlets; curtain background
signed and dated on the backing card 'W. Egley Miniature Painter 67 Cirencester Place Fitzroy Sq. 1829'
rectangular with arched top and bottom, 4¼ x 3 1/8 in. (109 x 80 mm.), ebonised wood frame with gilt-metal mount and acorn motif
The backing card is further inscribed in pencil with the sitter's name and biographical information.

Specialist note

Lady Emma Pennant, née Brudenell, was the daughter of Robert Brudenell (1769-1837), 6th Earl of Cardigan and his wife Penelope Anne, née Cooke (1770-1826). She married, in 1827, David Pennant (1796-1835) and they had a daughter, Louisa. Her brother was Lieutenant General James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan (1797-1868) who led the Charge of the Light Brigade.
The present miniature is most likely a marriage portrait. Painted in 1827, the year of the sitter's marriage, she is depicted wearing her wedding band.