Live Auction 17081Old Master and British Drawings and Watercolours Including Works from the Collection of Jean Bonna
Daniel Gardner, A.R.A. (Kendal 1750-1805 London)
Lot 158 THE ROSS COLLECTION FROM KNOCKMORE, ENNISKERRY, WICKLOW (lots 157-193)

Daniel Gardner, A.R.A. (Kendal 1750-1805 London)

Portrait of Elizabeth Harcourt Vernon, wife of George, 2nd Earl of Harcourt, small half-length with feathers in her hair

Closed2 July 2019

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Daniel Gardner, A.R.A. (Kendal 1750-1805 London)
Portrait of Elizabeth Harcourt Vernon, wife of George, 2nd Earl of Harcourt, small half-length with feathers in her hair
pencil and bodycolour
20 1/8 x 16 3/8 in. (51.1 x 41.6 cm.)

with Andrew Clayton-Payne, London, 1997, where purchased for the present collection.

Specialist note

Elizabeth, daughter of George Venables-Vernon, 1st Baron Vernon, was brought up at Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire, and married her cousin George Harcourt, in 1765. They lived at Nuneham Courtenay, Oxfordshire, where they employed Capability Brown to redesign the gardens, and Paul Sandby to advise on the interior of the house. Unusually, Elizabeth is depicted kneeling in an idyllic parkland landscape.
We are grateful to Neil Jeffares for his help in preparing this catalogue entry, and for including this drawing in the next update of his Dictionary of pastellists.