Live Auction 21921The Robin and Rupert Hambro Collection
EDWARD FRANCIS BURNEY (WORCESTER 1760-1848 LONDON), AFTER SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS
Lot 102

EDWARD FRANCIS BURNEY (WORCESTER 1760-1848 LONDON), AFTER SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS

Portrait of Mary Horneck (1754-1840), later Mrs. Francis Edward Gwyn, full-length, kneeling in an overgown, white silk dress with matching turban and a gauze sash

Closed8 June 2023

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EDWARD FRANCIS BURNEY (WORCESTER 1760-1848 LONDON), AFTER SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS
Portrait of Mary Horneck (1754-1840), later Mrs. Francis Edward Gwyn, full-length, kneeling in an overgown, white silk dress with matching turban and a gauze sash
oil on canvas
30 1/4 x 25 1/8 in. (76.7 x 63.7 cm.)

(Probably) By descent to James H.G. Burney Esq.; Christie's, London, 22 November 1963, lot 44, illustrated.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 3 July 1964, lot 178.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 4 April 1973, lot 62, where acquired by the seller at the following,
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 17 December 1976, lot 23.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 9 July 1980, lot 114.

Specialist note


After the picture in the collection of the Cliveden Estate, Buckinghamshire, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1775. Mary, youngest daughter of Kane and Hannah Horneck, was Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Charlotte. She was known as the 'Jessamy Bride' from verses written about her by Oliver Goldsmith.