Live Auction 1546The Raglan Collection: Wellington, Waterloo and The Crimea And Works of Art from the Collection of the Marquesses of Londonderry
ENGLISH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1780
Lot 486

ENGLISH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1780

Closed23 May 2014

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GBP 437

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ENGLISH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1780
Anne Tempest née Townsend (d. 1817), in pink dress, brown curled upswept hair together with, Attributed to Annie Dixon (British, 1817 - 1901), George Henry Robert Vane-Tempest, 5th Marquess of Londonderry (1821- 1884), in black coat
the miniatures on ivory
Lady in pink dress: oval, 1.3/4 in. (45 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount surrounded by brown velvet oval panel, in gilt-metal easel-stand frame frame with 'AT' cypher and coats of arms of Tempest quartering Heath, Wharton and another, impaling Townsend for John Tempest (1739-1794) and Anne Townsend (d. 1817).
Gentleman: oval, 1.3/4 in. (45 mm.) high, gilt-metal foliate mount in a rectangular blue velvet frame with applied gilt metal spandrels and coronet surmount, on separate gilt metal easel-stand

Specialist note

The sitter was the daughter of JosephTownsend, Honington Hall, Warwickshire. She married John Tempest, M.P., son of John Tempest of Wynyard and Frances Shuttleworth. Their only child, John Wharton Tempest (1772–1793), predeceased them as a result of a riding accident, which meant that the estates were devolved to John Tempest's sister's son, Henry Vane, on condition that he assume the names and arms of Tempest. Henry Vane's daughter married Lord Charles Stewart (later Marquess of Londonderry).