Portrait of Lady Charlotte Pelham-Clinton
Portrait of Lady Charlotte Pelham-Clinton
Henry Edridge, A.R.A. (1769-1821)
Portrait of Lady Charlotte Pelham-Clinton
Full-length, kneeling
Inscribed on backboard: Charlotte Pelham Pelham Clinton
Watercolour over pencil
9.8 by 8.1 cm., 3 ¾ by 3 in.
Lady Charlotte Pelham-Clinton (1812-1886) was the daughter of Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle (1762-1851) and Georgiana Elizabeth Mundy (1789-1822) of Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire. They married in 1807 and had fourteen children. Charlotte never married and from the 1850s lived with spinster sister Lady Charlotte at Ranby Hall near Retford, Nottinghamshire. A photograph of Lady Charlotte taken in 1861 is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery.